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A Slice of Life as a Teacher in Japan

Eat Your Crust

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The Importance of Bowing in America

Bowing is not really a thing in America but I have found that I instinctively kind of bow to family friends who are also Asian and so like when we go travel in Asian countries you know bowing doesn't feel that unnatural to me no it's just like oh yeah you know I'm giving a quick bow as a sign of like acknowledging someone. But then I'm sure like people from Asia coming here are like why does no one bow dude? That's actually funny that you bring that up because I immigrated here to the US from Korea when I was four-ish so I remember like probably through like second grade I used to always bow to my teachers and like speaking English and everything

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