[ Radiodocumentaries. Kim, truly a man with nerdy interests after Daniel's own heart.. ]
I'm a car salesman. [ His phone reads out for him, Daniel giving a small shrug, though not completely without a smile, as he says it. Look, he knows what kind of reputation that job has, okay.. ] I teach kids on the side for free.
[ That part is actually important to Daniel, after all. He doesn't want kids to have to depend on having the money to be able to learn it - something he's sure Kim will understand too, given the sentiment he showed towards children a few moments ago.
Though there's something that's sticking out a little more in his mind, something he can't help but address. ]
You are not the first person I've met who comes from a different world geographically. Though the other guy had animal ears, so I'm guessing your world is a little closer to mine. [ Is the animal ears thing still weird to him?
Yes. Yes, it is. It's easier when he can just type it though, rather than figuring out what tone to even use while talking about people with animal ears.. ]
In my world karate actually comes from a different country than where I live. My teacher came from Okinawa. [ There's a pause, because.. you know, cultural differences and similarities are actually really hard to convey when names of places don't mean a thing to the other person, Daniel realises now.. Give him a moment to figure out how to word this. ] People there look more like you than they look like me, if that makes sense?
[ Look at him struggling to convey 'my teacher was Asian' when that word probably means nothing to Kim.. Daniel doubts that's going to be the one word that carries over across cultural differences. Hell, maybe it's just a coincidence altogether that Kim looks Asian, and that kind of thing doesn't even exist where he comes from, if the worlds are different enough. ]
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I'm a car salesman. [ His phone reads out for him, Daniel giving a small shrug, though not completely without a smile, as he says it. Look, he knows what kind of reputation that job has, okay.. ] I teach kids on the side for free.
[ That part is actually important to Daniel, after all. He doesn't want kids to have to depend on having the money to be able to learn it - something he's sure Kim will understand too, given the sentiment he showed towards children a few moments ago.
Though there's something that's sticking out a little more in his mind, something he can't help but address. ]
You are not the first person I've met who comes from a different world geographically. Though the other guy had animal ears, so I'm guessing your world is a little closer to mine. [ Is the animal ears thing still weird to him?
Yes. Yes, it is. It's easier when he can just type it though, rather than figuring out what tone to even use while talking about people with animal ears.. ]
In my world karate actually comes from a different country than where I live. My teacher came from Okinawa. [ There's a pause, because.. you know, cultural differences and similarities are actually really hard to convey when names of places don't mean a thing to the other person, Daniel realises now.. Give him a moment to figure out how to word this. ] People there look more like you than they look like me, if that makes sense?
[ Look at him struggling to convey 'my teacher was Asian' when that word probably means nothing to Kim.. Daniel doubts that's going to be the one word that carries over across cultural differences. Hell, maybe it's just a coincidence altogether that Kim looks Asian, and that kind of thing doesn't even exist where he comes from, if the worlds are different enough. ]