In some cultures, it’s a lot easier. I don’t remember about cousins, but for Filipinos, any cousin (on same generation level as me) who has kids, then those kids are my nephews/nieces and I am their uncle. So, I was an uncle long before my own brothers and sisters had kids. I’m also an uncle to people way older than…

Ha. Pinches gachupines.

That book you mention is kinda old. As I understand it (I’m not a historian and this isn’t my specialty at all), there is a new wave of slave studies that suggest that American slavery was a new type of slavery. Robin Blackburn suggests that. Also, Baptist (2014) argues that there was a huge change in US slavery after…

You liked it? I thought it was bad. It sets it up as if Grundy is saying that blacks can’t be racist, when she never said that. She quotes a British professor, who has nothing to do with Grundy, expressing that view, as if in defense of Grundy. So all the comments there are arguing about whether blacks can be racist…

But transport, in the form of forced migration, continued even after the international slave trade was banned in the US. About one million slaves were torn from their families and moved to new slave states between 1790-1860s.

It’s discussed in the introductory chapters of Robin Blackburn’s “The Making of New World Slavery.” Also, Edward Baptist’s recent “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” concentrates on the huge change in slavery in the US after independence. This is all, apparently, part of a new…

Brooks should actually adopt this look. He looks bad ass.

>giving much of their money to their family members who are basically pimping them out.

Jamoke?

You’re fine. Most of the world washes dishes by hand, and has been doing it that way for a long, long time.

Oh, that makes sense. I can see how it seemed odd to you.

It’s only relatively recently that anywhere besides CA celebrated it. Growing up in the Midwest, I had never heard of it until I moved to California. And I didn’t know the history of it until much later.

Hmm. You’re right.

It’s part of the joke. There should be no accent, of course, on the English word “Mexican.” But making American things more Mexican is part of the joke in the article. Though I guess I just ruined the joke...

In Mexico, parties are often multi-generational. Granny, kids, teens, adults. And you sit in a big circle, which, of course, restricts conversation, but I guess it means no one is left out. One of the few things I disliked about Mexico.

Yeah. What’s up with all the handjob negativity?

For McDonalds, apparently the kitchen equipment is set up one way for breakfast, then they change that equipment after 10:30. Not enough room to have both sets out, from what I’ve read.

People don’t get the “fresh and healthy stuff” that’s on the McDonald’s menu now. They still get the old favorites. And, apparently, the appeal for those favorites is waning.

The requirements might vary, though. In Ohio, I noticed the calories were right next to the item on the menu board. Here in Indiana, they’re not; you gotta look for a poster elsewhere and find the item from a long list.

Yes. But they’re gonna first test it out in certain areas.