While many suffered from the floods and deforestation, the hacenderos reaped substantial benefits. The clearing of forestlands provided them with available area to expand their holdings. In fact, some hacenderos even invited lumber companies to clear forests for agricultural expansion.

The introduction of western instruments merely expanded the possible repertoire and range of music to be explored by the Filipinos. And in no time, they excelled at it.

Ancient Visayan courtship rituals and traditions are quite complex and unusual when viewed with today's biases. Consider, for example, how sexual expectations are set and met in Ancient Visayan relationships.

The earliest extant iteration of Canlaon's name and attributes can be found in the 1582 Relacion de las islas Filipinas by the Spanish soldier Miguel de Loarca.

Admittedly, many of the structures included in the aforementioned UNESCO nomination are aesthetically pleasing. But, is aesthetics alone a good argument to altogether disregard history? Or, perhaps it is time that we actually dissect what constitutes “heritage”?