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How A Lesson About Boundaries Left a Japanese Classroom Speechless
Assimilation is making yourself similar to the mainstream of society, or at least trying to be less unusual.

Baye McNeil
Mar 9, 20258 min read


America Learned a Lesson—Just Not the Lesson It Needs To Learn
I wasn’t even going to write this. I’ve had these thoughts for years, watching from across the ocean as America cycles through the same...

Baye McNeil
Mar 2, 20254 min read


Everybody Staring At My ‘You Know What!’
Chilling at my favorite onsen in the mountains of Kusatsu Co-worker: Are you looking forward to Friday? Me: Always. Why? Is something...

Baye McNeil
Feb 28, 20252 min read
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