Sigil of Loyalty

Intermeshed spheres of gender and social standing through Fundciaon Paraguaya (business which distributes microcredit loans) or wanbaso (wives of husbands overseas) sister-inlaws can illicit understandings of loyalty to particular groups not well understood within emic perspective. Implicit rules of meiyou renqing (human feeling) that hinge with Maoist egalitarian politics and Paraguan Credit Scoring Service Informcomf (loan group) individual dependent on group payment are both fascinating to consider when living in more independently valued standards of identity.

One interesting facet of Chu’s Cosmologies of Credit was learning how circulating money into physically distant spheres of business that increase chances of becoming morally suspect from within local community. Schuster’s commentary on Paraguayan Microfinance that interposed limited understanding in microcredit debt legitimacy by socially circumstantial contracts outside official creditworthiness also piqued interest. These notes summoned introspection which asked how far social relations -unbeknownst to me- are presently linking forms of legitimated debt in my social networks.

If by Athens, Ohio social culture carry implicit rules of similar ilk to group membership and legitimacy of morosidad (group-dependent debt) against liumang (outsider of social order), then what are my obligations which prove eligibility for services from my communities social loaning contract? Who would constitute an outsider that could disrupt personal or group moral reputation from Northwest region of U.S? What are desirable social debts that are considered mores for men and women? Attempting to connect these queries for any remotely objective framework does little in providing adequate answers from pleasantly subtle and still unsettlingly social reality.