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The Tricky Obligations of Utang Na Loob

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The Importance of Parental Sacrifice

The idea that you're talking about like the black sheep thing, that's not specifically a Filipino thing. All groups have some kind of policing, right? Like, it's a very powerful and probably necessary thing for group cohesion. So when people try to end Utangalilob relationships, even very exploitative ones, they're sometimes treated like black Republicans as if they're betraying their whole communities.

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