“Food brings people together. I think that’s the source of life.”
For many cultures, food is not just about satisfying appetite, but also carries important things such as cultural heritage and social interaction.
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ee. “Being able to keep the restaurant going and carrying on our legacy is extremely important,”
This is the same as what Cantonese restaurants mean to Chinese people in the United States. When you walk into a Cantonese restaurant, you can always hear familiar voices and taste the hometown food you miss.
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“We try to make it fun for everybody.”
This warm attitude towards everyone is what makes a restaurant stand out the most, and it makes customers feel at home.
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t’s crucial, she said, to have a support system beyond your biological family — people with whom you can commiserate, process and celebrate life’s ups and downs.
For many people without a happy biological family, having a second community family is a very fortunate and meaningful thing. It is also often an opportunity to heal from childhood trauma.
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It fulfills everybody’s needs, just going there and socializing. Not even eating the food but it’s more of connecting with other people.”
It's a lot like pubs in Ireland and Japan, where people go more to socialize than to eat and drink. The guests of the restaurant become a community.
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“当你身处边缘群体——而且你身处一个确保你被边缘化的国家——当你听说有一个安全的空间给你时，自然会有人来找你。这自然而然地吸引了酷儿群体，”她说。斯蒂芬妮。
People often think the number of minority groups is small, so their voices are ignored. However, research shows that the total number of minority groups is greater than that of mainstream groups.
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“When I first started Dencity, if I wasn’t there, people didn’t go out to skate,” said Blessing. “Now, they’re so comfortable they skate any day. Sometimes I’m just sitting at home going through Instagram stories then I’m like, ‘Ah! There they are.’” “It gives me so much joy. Because I really wanted for girls to be able to go out and just be themselves.” On her first day out with Dencity, “I finally felt like it was OK to be a female skater,” said Stephanie. “I had been constantly told, ‘Oh, this is a thing for guys.’ I finally felt like I was around my people. I finally felt normal.
This part inspired me a lot. Sometimes, we can only be ourselves when we are with people who are similar to us. Because people who have similar experiences can truly understand us and support us.
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“When I first started Dencity, if I wasn’t there, people didn’t go out to skate,” said Blessing. “Now, they’re so comfortable they skate any day. Sometimes I’m just sitting at home going through Instagram stories then I’m like, ‘Ah! There they are.’”
It's the normal situation that many new communities will experience; people are just like strangers without a leader. But with time passing, people will gradually become true partners for each other.
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“When I first started Dencity, if I wasn’t there, people didn’t go out to skate,” said Blessing. “Now, they’re so comfortable they skate any day. Sometimes I’m just sitting at home going through Instagram stories then I’m like, ‘Ah! There they are.’”
It's the normal situation that many new communities will experience; people are just like strangers without a leader. But with time passing, people will gradually become true partners for each other.
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Unlike shopping in boutiques and malls, in the market there’s no gender restrictions or conforms. If I go to, like, let’s say, H&M or Mr. Price, there’s the male section, the kids section, the females section,” said Stephanie.
Now I found the thrift is not in contrast with the skater kids, actually, it shows the free and broke normal, just like the queer resists being confined by traditional definitions of gender and sexuality.
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From their trips to the market to regular skate meet-ups at the dilapidated National Stadium or Tarkwa Bay beach, they have traced their own map of the city.
When I first saw the title, The Thrift Market, I thought it's talking about the community of chatters. But actually, it introduced the skate kids, which I didn't expect at all. I love how the title plays with contrast—“thrift” makes you think of something modest or cheap, but the kids are super cool and full of attitude.
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I believed that her English reflected the quality of whatshe had to say That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.
That's true, people are always determined the value of content, depending on the modification of the statement, as the same as people determine a person's value depending on her or his appearance; most people are always less patient with ugly person.
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which could certainly be described as "watered down"; and what Iimagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language,and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted
This part touched me deeply. The author has a high understanding and respect for her mom. For people who don't use English as their first language, people often distort their meaning. It's very precise that someone has the patience to translate what they think carefully.
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Why are there few Asian Americans enrolled in creative writing programs? Why do so manyChinese students go into engineering!
So true, I am a Chinese student and my major is ISE. During high school, there were almost only Chinese and Indian people in my POE, DE, math, and physical classes. Most of my friends chose the engineering major when we applied for college. I just found that solving math problems is much easier than reading a whole English article full of words I don't understand, and my interest in reading is not enough to overcoming my dyslexia, though I have liked reading before in Chinses.
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