Personal: Family: Cultural Assimilation

Sooo...that's Hanxin straddling the door, trying to stop the smoke alarm....

And, if you know anything about the "cultural superiority" theories of Chinese history, you'll totally understand the title for this post. In short, I am becoming acculturated. Oh goodness. This means that, in another few hundred years, I should loose my identity completely, not even objecting when the CCP refuses my application to create an NOVELLA AUTONOMOUS REGION!

The following AIM Conversation should explain it rather well.

*And if you don't know or care what xiaobaicai is, or if you think the reference is stupid, then, well, please go find a gorge and make it your own--Cornell style.*

lanovella (8:47:51 PM): f****ck
lanovella (8:47:57 PM): we are SO the Chinese people on the block now....
XiaoFenni (8:48:03 PM): ?
lanovella (8:48:31 PM): 1) no more olive oil. ran out and had to use CORN OIL. OMIGOD I am no longer quasi-Italian-American. I am a shame to my people.
XiaoFenni (8:48:40 PM): *giggles*
lanovella (8:48:45 PM): 2) the house is FILLED with smoke.
lanovella (8:48:52 PM): 3) the fire alarm is LOUD AS HELL.
XiaoFenni (8:48:56 PM): *cracks up*
lanovella (8:49:18 PM): 4) It was xiaobaicai we were cooking. wan't even a *regular* vegatable.
lanovella (8:49:42 PM): wasn't even a vegetable whose name you could bastardize and other ignorant Americans would understand.
XiaoFenni (8:49:49 PM): oh geez
XiaoFenni (8:49:53 PM): that's funnay~
lanovella (8:51:13 PM): 5) It was Hanxin that said "since we *paid SO much* (got overcharged) for the qingcai, we won't use any water- wouldn't want to dilute the flavor."
XiaoFenni (8:51:21 PM): >.<
lanovella (8:52:02 PM): 6) when the alarm starts going off and the house is filled with smoke, Hanxin completely forgets his *good* Engish, walks over, looks at the mess, and says "it because fire too big."
XiaoFenni (8:52:16 PM): >.<
lanovella (8:52:21 PM): Crap. On the first day of Chinese 101, they asked us "you mei you zhongguo pengyou ne?"
lanovella (8:52:55 PM): I just looked really, really daft, pointed to my chest, and said "wow shir lee row nuh."
lanovella (8:53:04 PM): Now ne?
XiaoFenni (8:53:06 PM): *cracks up*
lanovella (8:53:37 PM): Now I'm spelling in Chinglish, I'm married to a man who *freaks* out when you don't wear rubber slippers into the living room, and I've set off the fire alarm with xiaobaicai.
XiaoFenni (8:53:54 PM): You have achived Wazyn-nirvana!