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- Today, we're playing
intergenerational mahjong

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in the Chinatown
International District,

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here in Union Station.

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♪♪

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- We're in collaboration
with the Wing Luke Museum

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and then the Seattle
Office of Planning

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and Community Development to
help activate this space.

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[tiles clacking and shuffling]

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-Teaching mahjong 101, 13
tile, Hong Kong style.

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-I think at the heart of it, you
just need a set and four people

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who want to learn and play.

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♪♪

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-One of my favorite parts
of this event is being

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able to teach new players
and see the moment in their

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brain where the game clicks
and they start to get familiar

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with the different tiles
and the texture of

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playing together.

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-Oh, again!

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-Dang! We're getting hustled.

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We're getting hustled.

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-Social clubs have been
popping up in Seattle.

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We already know we're playing
at our senior centers,

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we're playing in the library,
playing in the public.

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What if we all played together
and built community together?

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-As a Filipino American, mahjong
is one of my major cultural

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touchstones and how I connect
with my culture and build

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community around my identity,
especially here in the CID and Seattle.

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-It's been really special in the
last few months to really see

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different mahjong organizations
in Seattle come together.

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-Everybody wants to connect
and teach each other.

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-You might not know
the characters when

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they're on the scene.

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-These are from Taiwan, so
they're a little longer.

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A lot of us grew up in
homes that played mahjong.

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-I used to play with my
grandpa growing up as a kid.

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And now he has dementia,
and so mahjong

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is one of the only times where
he gets that clear brain

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and can really focus and
be in rhythm with me.

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So it holds a special
place in my heart.

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♪♪

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-We're trying to make
it feel like home.

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I mean, there's everything
but karaoke on a laser disc.

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but there's activities for
the kids, there's snack

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breaks, we have people talking
and laughing and cheering.

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[applause and cheering]

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And just sharing stories
and making that one-on-one

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moments of human connection.

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-That's all for this
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much to offer all year round.

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I'm Lindsay Cohen and
Otis, last words?

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He'll just sit here
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♪ ♪