Moji Motions

e.g. if you are ethnically Vietnamese, you should identify strongly with Vietnamese culture.

Microcredit is the extension of very small loans to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment, and verifiable credit history. These banks can implement high or low-interest rates without the intervention of the government.

The fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world, only behind the oil industry. Thrifting means to go shopping at a thrift store, garage sale, or flea market where gently used items are sold at discounted prices. Thrifted items have been used by a previous owner, but are usually in good shape with enough life left to be useful to a new owner. There is a rising trend of gentrification of thrifting store in which middle-to-upper class of society started to buy clothes in thrifting store, which previously only been done massively by lower-to-middle class. The gentrification of thrifting store also results into the prominence of luxurious thrift carnival e.g., ThriftCon, GiveAway and many celebrities take part as the model and ambassador of such thrift stores.

The landlocked and mountainous Laos aims to become the "Battery of Southeast Asia" to boost its economy and escape its prolonged poverty by exporting hydropower electricity harnessed through its dams on the Mekong River system to its richer neighbours. The development plan was financed through loan grants from China and currently has 16 hydropower stations, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, as downstream (Lower Mekong) countries, are protesting against dams built in China and Laos (Upper Mekong) for contributing to the prolonged drought conditions in the entire Indochina region.

Queer-coding is defined as the process by which characters are depicted as having physical or behavioral traits that are usually associated with the LGBTQ+ community, even though the sexual orientation of the character is not specified. These characteristics usually include traditionally more effeminate traits for male characters and more traditionally masculine characteristics for females ones.

Blockchain is a kind of record-keeping technology which stores data in blocks that it chains together chronologically each time new data is added, creating an ever-expanding link of information that is continuously verified by a vast network of server farms and individual "miners." This peer-to-peer verification keeps the information very secure, but also results in an extremely high electricity consumption to maintain the networks (currently estimated at over 130 Terrawatt hours in a year, or 0.6% of global electricity consumption). A basic purpose of Blockchain is to be able to assign a unique identity to a tradeable piece of digital information, preventing attempts to alter or replicate it (because the peer-to-peer verification system mentioned above would detect such violations). A core use of Blockchain is cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium, which are able to function as a decentralized currency without a central bank or government’s control. The blockchain is used to store a ledger of transactions on each coin, and the verification system keeps in place an artificial scarcity that prevents more from being "printed out." Some other examples include the NFT (Non-Fungible Token) - a way of trading "ownership" of digital art by storing unique links to art pieces in blockchain form - as well as digital collectibles.

"Vaccine passports" are documents that are currently being considered or adopted by many countries in the attempt to reopen some economic activities during Covid-19. These can be apps or documentation to prove that an individual has received the full dose of vaccination or has already survived the disease and has immunity that way. They can be required for domestic economic activities, such as attending bars or concerts, or considered for the purposes of international travel, such as allowing those with a vaccine passport to bypass quarantine.