Student Name: Abigail Wang
Project Title: Favors As Currency
Project Title: Favors As Currency
Project Description:
What is currency? If you think about it, currency comes in many different forms. And themost interesting forms of currency do not come in paper bills. In every society, we use our relationships as a form of currency. We often hear “you owe me a favor” or “you owe this much to me” amongst friends or people we know.
For example, in the Chinese culture, the word“favor” is called “ren qing”. Directly translated, it’s put together by two words that means “human feelings”. It’s almost like a mental account book in your head of how much other people owe you or you owe other people.
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What is currency? If you think about it, currency comes in many different forms. And themost interesting forms of currency do not come in paper bills. In every society, we use our relationships as a form of currency. We often hear “you owe me a favor” or “you owe this much to me” amongst friends or people we know.
For example, in the Chinese culture, the word“favor” is called “ren qing”. Directly translated, it’s put together by two words that means “human feelings”. It’s almost like a mental account book in your head of how much other people owe you or you owe other people.
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