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How to maintain cultural food practices in assimilated environments

Everyone at work orders lunch together but I bring my own food from home and they keep asking why and I can't explain that this is how my family has always done things without sounding weird.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The pressure to blend in can make our most natural behaviors feel like defects that need explanation.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Dietary traditions across cultures?”

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