As you enjoyed the previous analogy… Here is the following (Please read the previous post first).
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Your family’s tradition has its own way to cut veggies to best match the Ranch dressing you make. It doesn’t mean, though, there is only one way to choose cut veggies. Dipping uncut carrots is also okay. The point is “how to enjoy Salad”. Where you immigrated, interestingly, there are “the rules” on how to cut the veggies. It has to be the thickness of an iphone. Sure, it is good to have rules, but you wonder which iPhone’s thickness?SE or 14 pro?
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You have your own way to cut veggies. You can call it rules certainly. However, it isn’t something to force others who just wish to enjoy Salad. When they want to look for another way to enjoy Salad, then they can learn more from you. So, you say, “There is no right and wrong in Salad”. Also, you say, “The Salad you define is indeed Salad – but that’s not the all about Salad”. It is fine to love only One type of Salad. However, it is NOT okay to ignore other Salad, and to mislead people to focus on the Salad they define. You find it silly to comment on each rule you see, though. Sure, following the rules can be easy, but not in your style. Therefore, all you do is to set up a place where anyone can learn “other forms of Salad” from people who enjoy various salads. Over years, your voice gets bigger as many enjoy Ranch a lot. Some mention your name saying “His Ranch is awesome – it is from Ranch Artisans family”. You appreciate the new friends caring for the upstream of your Ranch — and then, you find a comment, “Oh, he (Ranch) isn’t well respected in his country” by someone who doesn’t speak your language.
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I find it is NOT just negativity. It is a more fundamental cultural issue. No worries. I am okay. I keep speaking up as a Japanese person who loves Sashiko in Japan. Sashiko isn’t a solution for our social concerns as Salad itself won’t heal an illness. Sashiko will just make us healthy (and that’s good!).
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また長っ。配信はYoutubeにて。金曜夜9:40頃開始です。リンクはプロフィールから。
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2023-10-19 22:03:13
Hahaha. Everyone ‘knows’ there is right and wrong 🥗 ! I prefer the wrong kind myself 😂
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I used to care a lot about the Right Way of things, especially when learning for the first time. I hope I am more relaxed now.
When I worked in a Japanese-American restaurant, someone said the unagi is “cooked wrong.” They had unagi in Japan. Ahh, they had Okinawa unagi. The were in the US military. We make Tokyo unagi. They are totally different cooking styles. They said no, that is an excuse. We made it wrong!
There is no arguing with this person. Even if you can show, from Japanese people from Japan, that the way to cook unagi is different, somehow that means you want to just say something to not be wrong. The same way a child lies about not eating candy, so the parent is not angry. You have to just let him be angry. At most, we might give him the meal for free to make him stop arguing, and hope he never comes back.
Another customer told me our tea is not Japanese. Eh?? I bring him the package. It is Japanese imported tea, in a box with only Japanese language writing. Of course the tea is Japanese. But he said no, the tea is not Japanese. We are in a Japanese restaurant, why can’t I give him Japanese tea! … … does… maybe… he means that tea originally came from China? …….. But THIS tea is imported from Japan. Can he read Japanese? No. Of course.
Where does he think this tea is from?
America buys it from CHINA (some Americans HATE Chinese for being Chinese) and then AMERICA sends it to Japan, and Japan puts it in a box and mails it BACK to America!
He was serious. … it was so stupid I forgot how to talk.
When I brought him the bill, I think I told him where the Japanese embassy is, and to talk to them. I do not remember if he said something. Really, I do not care. I have seen too much. Some people should not be allowed outside without supervision.
This is a beautiful piece of art. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful
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Precioso trabajo 👏👏👏
Seems like nowadays everyone wants to be the keepers of some arcane knowledge. They derive joy from gatekeeping, and managing an in-crowd. People who are genuinely experts in their field, have put-in 10,000 hours or more, and live deeply embedded in whatever practice or field of expertise, are often some of the most open-minded, inclusive, and supportive people. People who stand on top of a mountain rarely want to tell people coming up that there’s only one trail. They may show people the trail that they followed, but they are genuinely excited that other people are climbing the mountain too!
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