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Show Thursday, October 13, 2005 University Journal Page 7 Immigrants avoid dishwashers By PHUONG LY THE WASHINGTON technology their homes don t look that much different trom Middle American homes Gabaccia said one explanation could be that immigrants can absorb only so much change The dishwasher is a U S invention that is rare in most counti les ev en among the upper middle class Chien too has a hard time explaining dishwashc guilt Chien whose younger sister goaded him into breaking his mental block" on the matter marvels over how the appliance scrubs otf caked on food But he isn t sure whether to keep using it I still hav e the sense that it's kind ot a waste ot electricity he said Its odd Ye buy American clothes we use the oven we use the stove but somehow that appliance fi5 of Germantown Graciela Andres Md laments that her daughter son in law and tliice grandchildren hav e abandoned washing by hand They do it the American way they put every thing in the wash machine no matter if it s a little spoon said Andies who emigrated from Boliv la in 1981 Benue Fischer a self descubed typical white who grew up in Baltimore, knows all the guy benefits of the dishwasher His parents had been so attached to theirs that they used it ev en though the wash cycle caused the lights to dim in then aging house But these days his dishwasher is simply a drying rack It was lus wife's idea Maiy Ngo is a Vietnamese American "Marys kind of set in her way s said Fischer 29 a sott spoken Columbia psychiatnst I just don't see the piacticality of using the dishwasher explained Mgo 28 a job trainer bom and raised in Montgomeiy County Md But she does let her husband turn on the appliance to clean it not the dishes every two weeks POST couple of months aao in the privacy of his u townhouse Alan Chien made a final bieak tioni cultuial tradition a guilt filled decision he has vet to shaie with his parents He used lus dishwasher He knows his parents w ill not undeistand ' hev dont believe in it said Chien 35 an enmiieei who eilii2iated with his family from Taiwan when he was a toddler 'Just because they nevei used it I never used it so it was just a my st ei mils tinny to me In m. my lmimyiant homes the automatic dislnv ishei is the last frontier Long alter new annals pick up football learn the intricacies ol the multiples and the Department of Motoi ehieles and develop a taste for pizza, they resist the disliw islier Some oke that not using the apphanee is one of the truest signs ot immigrant heritage whether they hul lioin Afnea Latin Amenca Asia or .istei u Luiope II tliev have a dishwashet and many do beeause it is standaid equipment in most homes it becomes a glonhed dish rack a Tupperwaie slot aye cabinet oi a snack food bin Its never turned mi Officials at appliance companies have noticed Seais doesn t even highlight the appliances in its ads in Spanish lunauage media It s a quii k in the assimilation process that baffles social scientists "It's cully stiikmg said Donna Gabaccia who studies immigi.ition and cuhnaiy lnstoiy at the L mv eisity ol Minnesota She said in the home Technology is generally embiaced by women Certainly in terms of A Rest on 1 1 i r ? k W'yx' rt i ETT2S lU'-- J Long hours, little pay & no fun? 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