@slicedGabe I think of that as “pitithy”. These folks like to think they are empathizing, but it is really a mix of guilt, pity and a big helping of patronizing thrown in…
When I traveled to China I found the food in Beijing to be very different from what I’d eaten in the US , even things labeled Peking… (ravioli, duck, etc.) Knowing we’d bastardized a lot of things I wasn’t surprised. What has surprised me was how different the Chinese food I’ve had in Sweden is from any of the “Chinese” food I’ve had elsewhere. The same for Spain and Mexico. IOW, every culture has its own take on Chinese food, doubtless influenced by local tastes and the availability of ingredients. Much of the food I had in Beijing contained vegetables I’d never seen before.
I remember many years ago having a spiced meat patty in France touted as an American hamburger. It tasted nothing like our version, but I figured who am I to decide how a hamburger should taste?
I think of it as stupidity.
@sorghum, I thought that it was clear that I was referring to BAKING soda.
^I was nitpicking about the difference between baking powder and baking soda.
Ahem -
Perhaps if they made the food better, the protests would have been nipped in the bud. Good food can do that!
From someone who posted the article on fb:
This ranks as one of the wackiest cultural appropriations:
KFC chicken as a Christmas tradition in Japan
http://www.wsj.com/articles/christmas-cheer-here-requires-reservations-with-the-colonel-1450477246
I’ve encountered this in Japan during ski season. I was flabbergasted when the KFC cashier refused to sell me fried chicken because I didn’t have a reservation. She would sell me anything else on the menu, but just not fried chicken.
I have a friend who is a travel writer specializing in Japan. He posted photos of Colonel Sanders dressed as Santa from Japan months ago! How funny.
I was recently in Ireland and saw “Cajun chicken” on nearly every menu for the first few days. I was appalled. Cajuns do not even eat a lot of chicken, pork is their thing. But then I started to wonder what the Irish take on this was and why they loved it so much (these were pub menus, full of bangers and mash, Guiness stew, and bacon and cabbage). Of course, Murphy’s Law, I didn’t see it again so I didn’t get to try it.
Cajuns eat chicken. However I’m not sure what. “Cajun chicken” would be because there are a number of dishes and preparations that could use chicken.
I’d guess the pub dish is just spicy chicken. That’s what Cajun usually means on menus.
You can do what you want.
If you do something that is culturally insensitive or exploits cultural appropriation, that is not illegal, so I am not going to say you can’t go. Whether you should go depends on your respect for cultural appropriation.
It also isn’t illegal to call a (race, gender, sexual preference) a (racist, sexist, homophobic) term, but that doesn’t mean it is right.
What does this comparison even mean?
Is the 6 year old dressing authentically and doing authentic “war dances” ?
I would expect that if a 20 year old were to dress as a “hot Pocohantas” that they would follow the norms and not necessarily wear a top. Strike that, that would be “normal Pocohantas” not “hot Pocahontas”.
Or do you not know anything about their views on the human form. Check out Soule’s images of Wichita girls in summer dresses.
How is dressing in a “hot Pocohantas” costume any different than dressing as a “hot French maid” or a “hot policewoman w handcuffs”?
Where’s the outrage in France?
@skyoverme,
Are you seriously equating going to a yoga class with calling an African American the n word? Oy vey…
@skyoverme, I officially give up.
Talk about false equivalencies…
That post wins the prize for most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read here.
On the 'Norway refugee" thread there’s someone arguing that women get treated better in Saudi Arabia than they do in the US.
Is this for real? Gotta ban origami, anime, taco bell, and haiku poetry
The lyrics of the song “get over it” by the Eagles is running through my head. At what point do we just stop the nonsense?
Is it cultural appropriation for a caucasian sushi chef to be working behind the counter of a sushi bar? What if the sushi chef is asian, but is chinese?
Is a “Philly roll” sushi roll combining smoked salmon and cream cheese a cultural crime?
Radicals never fails to amuse me