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Post A

"We can publish that in the papers if you like," he said. Mr Handsome with his friend Miss Fatty. "
She laughed. "You're a real ladies' man . I knew it from the first time I saw you."
"Well someone has to look out for the ladies," he said (143)."

One difference in African culture and American culture is that in Africa, being fat is considered beautiful, and skinny women are shunned. While on a case to find out whether or not a woman's husband is cheating, Mma Ramotswe dresses up as a floozy and goes to this man's favorite bar, While she is there, men keep hitting on her, calling her fat and fatty. At first i was wierded out by this backward way of thinking, but it seems to be a nice alternative to girls thowing up or starving themselves to stay thin. What if we were all pressured into being fat? In that case, most Americans would already be well on their way to beatutiful.

Post B

"Mopani Worms?" asked Mma Ramotswe.
The woman turned round and looked at her.
"yes." She offered the bag to Mma Ramotswe, who helped herself to one of the dried tree worms and popped it into her mouth. It was a delicacy she simply could not resist (114)."

This is one of the most disgusting things I have ever read. The idea of eating a worm makes me want to hurl. But I suppose that each culture has their own foods that are considered disgusting to another place. Botswana... worms. France... snails. China... dogs. Iceland... fermented shark. America... trans fats?
Anyway to each his own, but I would never eat a worm.