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pelnufeja ([info]pelnufeja) wrote on August 8th, 2015 at 03:14 am
I remember countless occasions, after I had ask him to provide a rational explanation for a nonrational custom, when he just shook his head gently and said, "Anne, may I explain to you again. The Hmong culture is not Cartesian." 

(Anne Fadiman "The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down")
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