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Almost as deep a cut as The Smiths

That shrub over there seems like plenty of cover

Suddenly understanding how they can smash shellfish on the chest their chests.

Damn, I can feel it now.

The funniest thing is you couldn’t react or you’d get busted. Like the worst case of giggles in church.

This, I remember.

We also made miniature slingshots out of fashioned bits of coathanger and rubberbands and would shoot eachother with uncooked popcorn kernels. In class, of course.

Dude, I don’t know but one of the most humbling moments I ever experienced was in an onsen in Hakone. As I dragged my hairy giant ape ass in and began to disrobe to shower off, all the Japanese men moved on, to a completely different area. I mean, this was the main hot spring, in a beautiful mountain setting, framing a perfectly composed wilderness but everyone had had about enough and decided to call it a day when I entered. My wife and I were the only non-Japanese people at that particular establishment. The food and the whole experience was amazing.

We Americans are not brought up to do anything nude with eachother beyond a certain age. I have extended family in Sweden and have known a few folks here who have saunas, etc. and there’s clearly a far more comfortable, natural acceptance in cultures that still do these things together.

Then again, that’s at the heart of everything that’s wrong with America. The erasure of history is what has denied us all the gifts we brought from the old world. I do love to see immigrants now preserving their culture and traditions and handing them on to their children. I’m second generation and my parents and generations before alike were too concerned with assimilating. You can see now the rise of racism overtly taking over. This was a thing that was fading out over my lifetime but certain hateful people will never let go. The kinds of things we lose when we erase history are immeasurable. In my family, I was not shown the shipwright’s skills of my forefathers. I was not taught how to make Italian cuisine even though my grandfather was a chef. There’s a lot of stupid protestant work ethic self-denial bullshit that has most Americans super awkward, uncomfortable in their own skins, etc.

Source: https://lemmy.ca/post/41402040

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