Off my usual beat but a humorous story from the land of intercultural marriages (my wife, if you don't know us, is Japanese):
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"OK. Is there a particular reason why?" "Good luck and it helps the new ones come in straight." "... today I learned." "How'd you not know?"
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"Well it's not covered in school." "Literally everyone knows that." "Maybe not." "Don't you literally have a degree in Japanese Culture."
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"I do but that particular fact wasn't in the textbook." "Why don't they put important things like that in the book!?!"
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There's a more important metacomment here about discourses about The Other, but it's late and kids are teething, so call it "a funny story."
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