This is Rough Translation from NPR, I'm Gregory Warner, and before we get to today's episode,

I just want to celebrate a milestone for everybody here. We brought you more episodes of Rough Translation

in 2020 than any year since we launched. We did that despite a pandemic, but also I have to admit,

because of a pandemic. The thesis of Rough Translation after all is that the obstacles we face around

the world are not so different, but we do see them through different lenses. We bring our own histories

and cultures and some of those politics to them. The pandemic has shown in these painfully stark

terms how we all across the globe can face the exact same virus in such different ways,

with very different outcomes. And so this year we took you to China and Ireland and Israel and

South Korea and France and Greece and Pakistan just to understand not only how the pandemic was

being fought, but how it is being framed. Now why am I talking about this? You probably guessed it

is December. It is the giving time of year. If you value this connection to the rest of the world,

this cross-cultural perspective that maybe helps you in your life, support your local public

radio station. As global as this show would like to be, it is your support of your local public

radio station that makes that work possible. So here's the link. It is donate.npr.org slash translation.

And hey, I'm just going to set a nice little goal for us in 2021. We want to make even more

episodes than we did this year. We can do that with your support. Just go to donate.npr.org slash

translation. And thanks.

So how did you run into this story? So I was 19.

I'm going to be 19.

GoFen Putabuela is a radio producer in New York. And for our last episode of 2020, we wanted to

revisit a story that he did with us that I've been thinking a lot about and we asked him to update.

But first, here's the original broadcast with GoFen.

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