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Wherein situation was put forth that in World War 2, Japanese-Americans were given a choice whether they would support Japan or the United States.
In relation to this, I just want to juxtapose the situation there to the Philippine-American War...
In which case, I checked out the Wikipedia page for the Philippine Revolutionary Army and Holy Shit there were an F ton of Foreigners mainly Spanish, Cuban and even Americans who deserted the Spanish or American side during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine-American war and joined the Filipinos instead. Here are some names and their original nationalities before joining the First Republic...
FRENCH
General Juan Cailles – Franco-Indian mestizo who led Filipino forces in Laguna[18]
Estaquio Castellor – French mestizo who led a battalion of sharpshooters.[18]
SPANISH
Brigadier General B. Natividad – Brigade Acting Commander in Vigan under General Tinio.[20]
General José Valesy Nazaraire – Spanish.[18]
Colonel Manuel Sityar – Half-Spanish Director of Academía Militar de Malolos. A former captain in the Spanish colonial army who defected to the Filipino side.[21]
Colonel Sebastian de Castro – Spanish director of the military hospital at Malasiqui, Pangasinan.[18]
Colonel Dámaso Ybarra y Thomas – Spanish.[18]
Lieutenant Colonel Potenciano Andrade – Spanish.[18]
Major Candido Reyes – Instructor at the Academía Militar de Malolos. Former sergeant in the Spanish Army.[22]
Major José Reyes – Instructor at the Academía Militar de Malolos. Former sergeant in the Spanish Army.[22]
Major José Torres Bugallón – Spanish officer who served under General Luna.[18]
Captain Antonio Costosa – Former officer in the Spanish Army.
Captain Francisco Espina – Spanish.[20]
Captain Estanislao de los Reyes – Spanish aide-de-camp to General Tinio.[20]
Captain Feliciano Ramoso – Spanish aide-de-camp to General Tinio.[20]
Captain Mariano Queri – Spanish officer who served under General Luna as an instructor in the Academía Militar de Malolos and later as the director-general of the staff of the war department.[18]
Captain Telesforo Centeno – Spanish.[18]
Lieutenant Maximino Lazo – Spanish.[18]
2nd Lieutenant Segundo Paz – Spanish.[18]
Lieutenant Alejandro Quirulgico – Spanish.[20]
Lieutenant Rafael Madina – Spanish.[20]
Lieutenant Arsenio Romero – Spanish.[20]
Antonio Prisco – Spanish.[18]
Manuel Alberto – Spanish.[18]
Eugenia Plona – Spanish aide-de-camp to Baldermo Aguinaldo.[18]
JAPANESE
Captain Tei Hara - Japanese officer who fought in the Philippine-American war with volunteer soldiers.[23]
Captain Chizuno Iwamoto - Japanese officer who served on Emilio Aguinaldo's staff.[24] Returned to Japan after Aguinaldo's capture.[24]
Lieutenant Saburo Nakamori - Japanese.[28]
CHINESE
Brigadier General José Ignacio Paua – Full-blooded Chinese general in the Army.[19]
CUBAN
Lieutenant Gabriel Badelly Méndez – Cuban.[18]
Captain Vicente Catalán – Flag officer in-Command of the Philippine Navy. A former member of the Royal Spanish Navy and was a Criollo from Cuba.
ITALIAN
Captain Camillo Richairdi – Italian.[18]
AMERICAN
Captain David Fagen – An African-American Captain who served under Brigadier General Urbano Lacuna. A former Corporal in United States Army 24th Colored Regiment.[25][26][27]
Captain Arthur Howard – American deserter from the 1st California Volunteers.[27]
Captain Glen Morgan – American who organized insurgent forces in central Mindanao.[27]
Captain John Miller – American who organized insurgent forces in central Mindanao.[27]
Captain Russel – American deserter from the 10th Infantry.[27]
Lieutenant Danfort – American deserter from the 10th Infantry.[27]
Private John Allane – United States Army.[29]
Private Harry Dennis – United States Army.[29]
Private William Hyer – United States Army.[30]
Private Meeks (given name not specified) – United States Army.[29]
Private George Raymond – 41st Infantry, United States Army.[citation needed]
Private Maurice Sibley – 16th Infantry, United States Army.[31]
Private John Wagner – United States Army.[29]
Private Edward Walpole – United States Army.[29]
Henry Richter – American deserter from the 9th Cavalry.[27]
Gorth Shores – American deserter from the 9th Cavalry.[27]
Fred Hunter – American deserter from the 9th Cavalry.[27]
William Denten – American deserter who joined General Lukban in Samar.[27]
Enrique Warren – American deserter who served under Francisco Makabulos in Tarlac.[27]
BRITISH
Alexander MacIntosh – English.[27]
William McAllister – English.[27]
Charles MacKinley – Englishman who served in Laoag.[27]
James O'Brian – English.[27]
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippin ... servicemen
These are just the prominent officers in the revolutionary Army, thousands more are unnamed foreigners who joined the Filipinos too and disobeyed their own countrymen for that.
Makes one wonder...
To what extent would your ideals lead you? If for example you were sent to war in another country and your homeland propaganda painted them to be enemies and devils or subhumans. Like the Americans who left America before serving in the Philippines, initially thought that Filipinos were wild near monkeylike creatures like in this picture of Filipinos in a American Newspaper...
William Mckinley was famous for saying that the Philippines needed to be conquered so that the Filipinos would be "Civilized, Christianized, Educated and Uplifted" and be taught democracy since they were barbarians.
And thus hundreds of thousands of Americans were shipped to the Philippines.
But upon arrival it turns out that their superiors' dehumanizing propaganda was a big fat lie. The Philippines was already home to civilizations and nations far older than America like the autonomous Sulu Sultanate or similarly autonomous Republic of Negros; the Spanish already Christianized the Philippines on the 1500s waay earlier than your ancestors Christianized America in the 1700s, the people were also the most educated in Asia since there was already mandatory Public Schooling decried by the Spanish Queen and the people uplifted themselves already by throwing off Spanish colonial yoke in a local revolution and they were already well versed in Democracy in that the First Philippine Republic was the first Constitutional Republic in Asia (There were older Republics in Asia of course like the Janapadas of India or the Lanfang Republic in Borneo, but the Philippines was the First Republic in Asia which had a full Constitution ironically based on the French and American constitutions)
So the question now is that considering the situation you are in, are you willing to betray your own countrymen knowing how they lied to you about an innocent people intending to murder them instead, and be like the thousands of Americans and Spaniards who defected to the Philippine Revolutionary Forces or would you rather stay with your own kind or would you rather stay with the occupying force and be a loyal patriot? Let's not take this situation in hindsight though, let's just say that you were there then and were only experiencing the Philippine-American War AS IS, instead of having the luxury of Hindsight on this issue. What would be your decision?
Point out the reasons why you would want to defect to the Filipinos or you would stay with America's occupying force.
