Dominos, Dominos, Dominos

Dominos, a favorite pastime of those who were unable to help in the meal preparations, serves as an example of the way that the elderly were treated as almost needing to be entertained, similar to the way in which children are looked after. My informant told me that this was the first year that the elderly generation was officially “kicked out of the kitchen”, thus showing a recent shift in the political dynamic within the family.

 

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