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What Filipinos Often Forget About Utang Na Loob in the Age of Individualism

For centuries, the concept of utang na loob has defined the social contract with our fellow Filipino.

How watered down the concept of utang na loob has become. It has taken away from what it used to mean to us, a historically divided people. There's this animosity towards the concept that seems to be a byproduct of time, ...

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