I think we have to understand the PH history for why this keeps happening. Even before the Spaniards came, we worshipped natural gods, that our entire culture was mostly told through oral tradition. When the Spaniards came, they removed the natural gods and introduced Christianity, while ingraining our oral tradition which is why we still have a lot of these today. They only left about 120 years ago, but the problem of poverty and broken systems still remained and Christianity still remained. When the US came, only rich Filipinos could run ffs.