I'm doubtful of the source where you got this article but this part is interesting:
According to the report, examples of Filipino gullibility include:
- “Sandugo” or the blood compacts betweer Miguel Lopez de Legaspi and Datu Sikatuna, and Ferdinand Magellan and Raja Humabon — ploys which led to the brutal Spanish colonization of the Philippines, but are still celebrated by Filipinos as a sign of friendship;
- The continuing belief that circumcision is common practice in Christianity;
- The Mock Battle of Manila Bay;
- Popular belief that Agapito Flores invented the fluorescent bulb;
- Popular belief that Eduardo San Juan invented the moon buggy;
- Popular belief that an ophidian humanoid resides in a Manila shopping mall.