August 11, 2010
One day I got into a cab,
and I noticed that the driver had a 3-inch long pinky fingernail. From that
point on, I couldn’t stop staring at it. Wasn’t he afraid of breaking it? Maybe
he does alot of cocaine? Why wasn’t the other pinky fingernail that long? It
didn’t seem very easy for him to drive with something that long and sharp that
close to a steering wheel and the exposed skin of his other hand.
A rumor I heard is that
Chinese people like to grow out one or several of their fingernails in order to
demonstrate that they do not do menial labor. Driving a taxi is not considered
menial labor. There you have it: fingernail length as a demonstration of social
class.
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