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FuriouFive987 karma

Is there a specific reasoning behind other deaf people's reticence to embrace the implants or is it just a 'there is nothing wrong with me to fix' type of thinking?

Have any of the people who were initially against the implant more interested now that they have more first hand experiance on how it works and how much of an impact it can have on one's life?

Last question: How hard it it to update the implant when technology advances? Does it require another surgery or can parts be retrofit to the existing system?

FuriouFive406 karma

I am from New Mexico, about half my family is Native(Isleta, Laguna, and Sandia) the other half is mostly New Mexican(people of hispanic origin who have been living in the area for hundreds of years, also mixed with the various europeans who settled in the area). We are a family of cooks, lawyers, and historians, so this is a topic that has come up a few times. The consensus is that a lot of native food from the Southwest US and Mexico mated with spanish food to create the various regional mexican foods(Southern, Central, Northern, New Mexican, TexMex). This probably happened everywhere; the europeans watch the natives take the ideas and use that with the techniques they know to create a new regional food.

Add to that the fact that the europeans destroyed a ton of the cultural cooking techniques. Not only because they were moving tribes, forcing tribes to conform to european standards, and cornering more valuable resources, but also because european technique and tools were way more advanced. It might be traditional to cook buffalo on a rock in the fire with locally gathered herbs, but you can trade for a cast iron skillet and european salt, herbs, and spices. Those things might taste better and be easier to use or you may be forced to use them.

Last you have to consider how many foods that we associate with the old world that are actually new world foods. Tomatoes are usually the biggest mind blower; commonly associated with places like Italy and France, but is really a new world food and relatively new to europe. Chocolate is the same. Associated with different places in europe, but from South America.

FuriouFive20 karma

Did you and that Adam Goldberg squash your beef or..?

FuriouFive14 karma

Even if you just went over proper table game etiquette and procedure on one of those cheap home tables it would help a ton of people out.

FuriouFive12 karma

So when are you going to come to Vegas to learn how to shoot a bunch of cool guns at one of the crazy shooting ranges and learn to gamble? Both activities would be primo content for Modern Rogue.