Yeah I have family from the Philippines. They are very protective of daughters.

I went to visit the village. I was walking in the backroads and a dude with 2 machetes and one eye walked up to me in the road while he was roasting a fucking dog over a fire.

I told him nice machetes. He didn't seem to understand, so I just pointed at his machetes and smiled. Fortunately he seemed disarmed once I confidently showed I found the whole thing amusing, and just gestured towards available dog to eat.

The lesson of their protectiveness was learned.