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Written by Chu 朱 on 2025-02-01 at 01:17

Hey Chinese Americans,

You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?

If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.

All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.

There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.

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Written by Cedar Fen Farm

Cedar Fen Farm on 2025-02-01 at 01:26

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I know all my grandma's stories from the depression. Better grow a garden and learn to cook. Stand on soup lines if you can find one. Work for food because there was no money. People moved in w each other and worked together to survive. Thete were food riots in the citied. People ate road kill, squirrels and small birds. The train yards were gathering places, so many men jumping box cars to travel to look for jobs. This is what happens when the economy stops. Goods and services stop moving.

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Written by LA Plant Genetics on 2025-02-01 at 13:05

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There is a series of three books (Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930s by Rita Van Amber) that collects first hand accounts & recipes (mostly from the US Midwest) from people that survived.

Sadly, I doubt many will be able to survive off selling cream or eggs these days, but there are examples of mutual aid too. The saddest for me was the person who canned weeds to survive the winter (it is better to dehydrate/dry weeds for food safety reasons, btw).

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