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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Are--for the two of you who, who braid hair in a salon setting, does your professionalism mean that members of your circle of your friends and family
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are more or less likely to sort of drop by the, drop by your home some evening and ask if you can do something with their hair?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I used to have that problem I don't anymore
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Did you have to get firm with some people? [[laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yes
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
How about you Miss [[?]]?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
I don't, I don't have it that much because I'm the only one here, I don't have any family here, so I don't have that problem
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
uh huh [[affirmative]] , Miss [[?]] how uh, you came from a, from a place where the, where the style that still--
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that I'm sure that the people who come over to talk to you in the tent are still surprised by, by some of the, the styling and braiding and so forth for lots of people in the white world it it still remains an unusual and fairly new phenomenon
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coming from a place where it was much more everyday how--has it been odd for you to find, that something you accepted as ordinary and kind of, kind of basic became such a specialized or unusual skill in the United States?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
Yes uh yeah
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Uh, how so? I mean did it um or um let me ask the question a different way as well;
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did you find yourself inclined to change your own sense of style when you came to the United States to fit what then would have been popular Black hairstyles rather than holding to the traditional style you were accustomed to?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
Um in some cases, yes I kept on holding to the traditional styles because I had my younger sisters then and my mother that I braid hair at home and
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it's just that I've found it so so strange that um it wasn't so common here in America to have people have their hair braided and just walk around the streets, that's very different,
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and it's just that uh very recently that the people do that mostly it was just in the family setting and people was just doing in the privacy of their home
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and maybe just braid it at night and get it, open it in the morning and just simple as that, that's one of the differences that I've found out.
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But in a way too, I tried to, um, tried to also do the styles that the American cornrowing does, here in America, and tried to just maybe add a little more traditional to it, too.