The custom of eating pork on New Year’s is based on the notion that pigs symbolize progress or prosperity for many cultures – not a connection that may immediately come to mind. The animal pushes forward, rooting in the ground before moving, symbolizing progress. In Italy, the fatty meat also symbolizes the fattening of...
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Sepideh and I met our freshman year in college and have been fast friends ever since. Two greener girls you have yet to see; one from Minnesota and the other from Tehran. We’ve maintained our close friendship despite both moving in seemingly opposite directions and traveling extensively around the globe. She is an incredible friend who encourages my interests in...
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Hot off the presses! Oxen were spotted running through the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown and reports are coming in that this phenomenon is playing out in Chinatowns around the world. Your intrepid reporter raced to the scene, and the following is an eyewitness account of what she found. Approaching Chinatown via Kearney Street...
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