The kuripot lifestyle, rooted in Ilocano culture, emphasizes the importance of saving money through being cheap and thrifty. It often refers to being a reluctant spender, minimizing costs and making extremely careful financial decisions. 

A Citizens' assembly is a collective group of people selected randomly from the population of nations to deliberate on issues and represent their community's interests.

Geographically clustered insurgent forces are spread out across multiple separate locations or pockets, where the leadership and the bases of the insurgency is heavily decentralized. Whereas geographically concentrated insurgent forces are consolidated in a contiguous territory.

Traditionally, Maranao families' strategy in their usual line of businesses (money exchange, gold and jewel trades, etc) rely on close-knit, clanship systems and high-trust networks to ensure line of credit and revenue. In contrast to Western business style that relies on legal and formal frameworks in order to stay competitive.

Queer temporality is a critique and form of protest where it argues that society views time as heteronormative and gendered by patriarchy- where our response to time is supposed to be urgent, productive, and conforming. Queer temporality intentionally delays our response to time as an act of resistance.