My informant is the mother of a USC student. She is an immigrant from Cameroon and came to America with her husband and son before giving birth to their daughter. “In my culture it is believed that a woman who has no children is considered wicked, a man, and worthless. If she is married and […]
My informant learned this saying from an old television show that he used to watch. This saying has become part of his daily speech. Almost every conversation he has includes his saying “boys will be boys” to the point that the person he is talking to is extremely puzzled. He says it in situations in […]
The following is a riddle my informant told to me: A man and his son were driving down an icy road. When they took a corner, the car flipped. After a while, two ambulances came, one took the father to a hospital in the west, the other took the son to an hospital in the east. The […]