“Utang na loob” pertains to a debt of one’s inner self, and pertains to a debt of gratitude. This often applies to the obligation one feels to repay a person who has helped them.

For fuck’s sake the world is dying. Temperatures are rising, the poor are suffering. Covid-19’s fucked the shit out of everyone. Look around you, women, sexual minorities are under constant violence. But we are not supposed to speak like this. How Dare You!

THBT it is justified for social activists in developing countries to work with socially regressive bodies and institutions in the state

Degrowth broadly means shrinking rather than growing economies, so we use less of the world's energy and resources and put wellbeing ahead of profit.

Uncertainty avoidance - measures the extent to which different cultures socialise their members into accepting ambiguous situations and tolerating uncertainty. In a culture that practices high levels of uncertainty avoidance, people place a premium on job security, retirement benefits, and so on, while in a society with a culture of low uncertainty avoidance, people are more willing to take risks, and are more adaptive to change

Joyland (a recent featurette from Pakistan) is among the 15 films that made the cut for the best international feature film honour and will advance to the final stage of nominations at Oscars. It won Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and the unofficial Queer Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival.
In the movie, The youngest son, Haider in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and he quickly becomes infatuated with Biba, a strong-willed trans woman who runs the show as the starlet dancer. While the character is shown to have implicit affection towards Biba, his affection remains repressed as he is shown to be unaware of his own desires as an individual as some undertone scenes implicitly hint at him having forbidden desires of liking/preferring men.

"""Lean In"" promotes a cultural norm of assertiveness. It encourages women to assert themselves in the workplace through negotiating their salaries and working conditions, asking for raises and promotions, challenging gender biases, and being more confident in discussions (instead of being overly apologetic or taking a backseat role).

""Lean Out"" focuses on deprioritising traits like assertiveness, physical strength and dominance, and instead promotes the norms of deference, cooperation, considering the needs of others, and empathy."

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