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“Quinoa!” my dad exclaimed. “The South Americans have been eating that for years. You people think you discovered it.” He looked at us in disgust. I looked at him in perplexity.

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Our mainstream culture is to have a mix of cultures. Rather than that holding onto a single set of values and beliefs, we all change depending on the environment.

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Is his Murray Hill apartment co-signed by his parents?

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Dress the part: wool beanie (no matter the temperature), earth tones, and a disdained, expressionless look.

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I moved away from the epicenter of sh*tty apartments and dollar slices known as New York to a faraway, much flakier place called Los Angeles.

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“Is this a real daycare?”

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Anything that has holes in it is a bonus, especially jean shorts. If you aren’t sure what color to get, black is always the answer.

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Philistin decided to dub the culinary culture of this enigmatic civilization as “Moro-ccan”.