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Nikkei Chronicles #7 — Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage
Japanese Hair: A Rambling Exploration of its Cultural, Familial, and Personal Roots
When I enter that “nonki” (as my grandma jokingly calls it) state of being where I sort of zone out of the present time and space, I often find myself ruminating upon the insignificant features of myself. I self-consciously think about the parts of myself I don’t like, which currently is the peeling skin on the back of my legs from a bad sunburn I acquired a couple of weeks ago after entering, you guessed it, my nonki persona, and laying in the 90-degree-hot sunlight too long.
More often than not, however, I find myself playing with the hair ...
