rizal? our national hero?

For me, Rizal shouldn't be our national hero. In the first place, he is not a good model/representative of a true typical Filipino. We all know that majority of our countrymen fall under the blue-collar job or the skilled workers. I'm not saying that majority of our countrymen are illiterate but it just so happened that most of our fellowmen did not finish their studies due for some reasons such as poverty. I have nothing against Rizal personality nor I'm not judging his individuality, it just so happened that if we would look deeply in his principles, it's not much of absolute freedom and independence. He wants a change in the treatment of the Spaniards, in fact he wants our country to be a province of Spain. He wants us to be under the rule of the Spaniards, he sees the Spaniards as good people that can help us progress. At first, he was blinded by the twilight that the Spaniards are showing our countrymen. Besides, his written novels are somehow self-centered and it talks about more of what he wants and more of what he wants to happened.