Garlic
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Surely I know some people like discrimination, but I was a little bit surprised when I heard a conversation of the two women at the next table at the Gaien-mae brunch of Otoya, a chain restaurant of Japanese dishes. They were chattering so loudly.
Judging from their talk, they seemed to be employees of an agency of fashion models, or they themselves were models. As Aoyama area is supposed to be a very fashionable zone in Tokyo, musicians, broadcast crews, architects, magazine editors and writers, designers of something and show-biz people are none of rare animals around here.
"You remember I said she's kind of snobbish, don't you?", one of them said. I could see her face, which was pretty beautiful, though I felt it lacked so called elegance.
"Yes, and?" The other said.
"When we had dinner together, she left the garlic slices!"
"Ah, why?"
"Maybe she didn't like to have her breath smell."
"Oh, no."
"Well, I ate the garlic slice a lot. They made the dish very tasty. But she didn't. She just separated them from what she would eat."
"That's too bad."
"Yes, She's bad."
I have no idea why they couldn't accept the woman. Maybe it is, in our society, no use to try to be liked by everyone.
Judging from their talk, they seemed to be employees of an agency of fashion models, or they themselves were models. As Aoyama area is supposed to be a very fashionable zone in Tokyo, musicians, broadcast crews, architects, magazine editors and writers, designers of something and show-biz people are none of rare animals around here.
"You remember I said she's kind of snobbish, don't you?", one of them said. I could see her face, which was pretty beautiful, though I felt it lacked so called elegance.
"Yes, and?" The other said.
"When we had dinner together, she left the garlic slices!"
"Ah, why?"
"Maybe she didn't like to have her breath smell."
"Oh, no."
"Well, I ate the garlic slice a lot. They made the dish very tasty. But she didn't. She just separated them from what she would eat."
"That's too bad."
"Yes, She's bad."
I have no idea why they couldn't accept the woman. Maybe it is, in our society, no use to try to be liked by everyone.
Surely I know some people like discrimination, but I was a little bit surprised when I heard a conversation of the two women at the next table at the Gaien-mae brunch branch of Otoya, a chain restaurant of Japanese dishes.
I think that it would be better if instead of "dishes", a "cuisines" would be used.
I'm not sure if I fully understand the usage of the "cuisine(s)". I think that there may be a trick to its singular vs plural forms. I hope somebody can comment on this. The way I think it is: when you use singular form you think about the food that's popular in the whole place that you mentioned, for example in Japan the cuisine would basically be rise and fish (note the singular form). But if you would use the plural form, I think that the meaning would be slightly different. In that case you would have in mind different areas of Japan, each of them having its own cuisine.
I really hope that someone will comment on this.
Maybe it is that in our society, there is no use to try to be liked by everyone.
I think you're right. To me, one thing is trying to be polite to everyone(which is important, having good manners, etc), but to be liked by everyone.. I'm not sure if it's possible. People can be so different. For one person something you do or say will be totally unimaginable and they will laugh at you or even hate you, but at the same time somebody else might think that you're a great person.
The important thing is to act according to your own values and principles. And by being your true self people will attract similar people with whom they don't have to try to be liked, but just be real, and still be liked.
To say that somebody is bad just because they don't like garlic is crazy and sad.
> The important thing is to act according to your own values and principles.
Well, that's just what I think:-)