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Guotie

Culture, Language

As an anthropologist, I’m embarrassed to admit that I still get very confused by Chinese kinship terms. So I felt better reading about the the travails of Ernie, a second generation Chinese American, who accidentally called his grandmother’s brothers daughter” a pan-fried meat dumpling” when visiting over Christmas. (His blog, Little. Yellow. Different., is well worth bookmarking.)

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