Authenticity

A Story about Salty Parabolas and Not Being That Insufferable Jerk

An old colleague of mine, a historian of modern Brazil, tells a story about potato chips in Japan.  There is, it seems, a town in Japan where there are enormous numbers of Brazilians who went there to work, as migrant workers so often do, in industries too low-status, too taxing, and too dangerous to appeal to the Japanese who could choose otherwise.  M…