Should Gabi have climbed the cherry blossom tree?

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Philosophy, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Cherry blossom trees are very important in Japan. They're so special they even have their own festival every year. Our listener Gabi lives in Japan and got in trouble for climbing one. But did he really do the wrong thing? Do the rules of another culture (or even another family) apply to us when we visit?

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:05.0	Now if I add a little more bark to this broth of slugs and soil, then delicious.
0:12.0	Oh, my thick leaf wraps already. Oh, hot. I'm so excited that
0:17.8	Molly is coming over to visit my treehouse, my very own home amongst the gum trees.
0:23.0	Hello?
0:26.0	Excellent timing, Molly.
0:28.0	Come on in.
0:29.0	Oh, sorry, can you take your shoes off at the door actually?
0:32.0	I've got some hand-sewn leaf slippers that are just your size. Take your
0:35.0	off at the door actually, I've got some hand-sewn leaf slippers that are just your size. Oh, surely I can just walk in with my outdoor shoes on, Carl, like I do at my place,
0:41.0	especially since we are up in a tree.
0:44.0	How dare you disgrace the customs of the treble?
0:49.0	What's a treple?
0:51.0	The treple are my people. Tree people, hence treble. We who live in tree-bound
0:58.4	huts never wear dirty shoes indoors. Please, I'll ask you one last time, off with those grubby shoes and on with the leaf slippers.
1:07.4	Okay, but I really don't see why I have to put these on, but hand them over. Oh these are tight and itchy. Oh I think there was a
1:17.6	worm in these leaf slippers. Oh no no no that that's just mud to help seal the slippers together.
1:23.0	Yuck.
1:24.0	Now, come and eat some slug and soil soup with warmed up thick leaf.
1:28.0	Double yuck!
1:29.0	What's your problem, Molly? You come into my home.
1:31.0	Your tree hut.
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