Utan Na Loob - The Cultural Value of Filipinos

Despite hundreds of years of colonialism and systematic attempts to erase these indigenous values, the fact that it's still around is a good thing. Ije says that overtime, the concept of utan na loob became warp Some scholars argue that spanish colonizers may have even taken advantage of utan laob to convert so many of the native people to catholicism. So here we see that utan could be used as something you could abuse, holding a debt over some one's head to get what you want. That exploitation has crept into our modern understanding of utang na lob. People can definitely take advantage of this cultural value to manipulate other people, to bully them, or pressure them