Word: chanda
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...Chanda: I think there definitely is some culture shock. Southern hospitality doesn't exist here. The pace of life here is somewhat faster than at home. But it's weird because I get adjusted to life here and everything seems slower...
...Chanda: And when I go home I see like cotton fields, corn fields on the side of the road and I think this is so unlike Harvard Square...
...Chanda: Yeah. In our neighborhood we always wave to people like in their cars. If I'm in my car and I see someone running down the street, or vice versa. At least in school when we would answer our teachers we would...
...Chanda: I don't count Florida as the South...
...Chanda: It's been an especially interesting experience for me as an Asian-American person coming to Harvard. I'm Taiwanese. One of the big things I get is, 'Where are you from? California? New York?' 'Oh I'm from Tennessee.' 'I didn't know there were Asian people from Tennessee.' I've gotten that so much and like, 'What are your parents doing there' and stuff like that. And I came from a high school where I was the only Asian American person in a class of 65 and then now I'm here and it's 20 percent...