Posted on 03/04/2017 3:09:22 PM PST by RayChuang88
“Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes”, asks the BBC in a headline on its news website, the article highlighting concern about “microaggressions” in food media.
“Food media is predominantly generated by white people for white people, so when the subject veers toward anything outside of the Western canon, it’s not uncommon to see things generalised, exotified, or misrepresented,” Filipino-American food and travel photographer Celeste Noche told BBC Trending.
“I think microaggressions in social media are reflective of food media as a whole in that appropriation,” Ms. Noche said, citing photographs of Asian dishes placed on bamboo mats or framed with chopsticks and banana leaves as examples.
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I really wonder did the author of the original BBC article realize when the Japanese adopted Western foods during the Meiji Era (the adapted cuisine is known in that country as youshoku), many Western foods adapted were often eaten with chopsticks. Indeed, many youshoku restaurants in Japan still have people eating with chopsticks, not with a fork and knife.
That’s Japan. It appears that the Philippines is different.
Or maybe we are racist for NOT using chopsticks? [/s]
True, but I know many Filipinos who eat with chopsticks—thanks to the strong Chinese influence in that country (Manila has a large Chinese expatriate community).
No, they're multi-cultural.
More college-educated twittery.
>>Or maybe we are racist for NOT using chopsticks? [/s]<<
Yes, both are racist. So is using your hands or not using your hands.
I don’t know, I never seen a chopstick wearing a white sheet.
In fact I know several Orientals that prefer chopsticks to this day. I eat with them occasionally myself. Just to prove I can. 8>)
I’m just a fly white guy, but when I eat Chinese I use chopsticks unless I’m rolling up Moshi pork.
I’m a honky and I always use a fork and knife! I’m so lost in this argument...
I have chopsticks in my car. Chinese food is prepared to be eaten with chopsticks! I cook mostly Shanghai Homestyle as taught to me by my lady friend. I prefer it. I only have 5 woks in my kitchen.
It was yummy as hell and I ate it with chop sticks!
Thankfully no whiny liberals were around to whine about cultural appropriation.
If you see an Asian person using forks and knives you should say “Hey buddy drop the fork and knife, you are culturally appropriating European silverware!!!!”
So to not be racist means i have to give up several of the foods that I currently love because I am polish and all I can eat from now on out are runzas, polish sausage, and boiled potato soup?
Not to mention all the racists restaurants that will have to close like panda express, taco bell, and tokyo joes????
Gee, the PC crowd wants us to only eat what our ancestors ate.... isn’t that racist?
It never occurred to me that there were different techniques, but in light of this article, I wonder if the author realizes that native chopstick users could be culturally appropriating each other!!
So putting tamales in banana leaves would be pushing it too.
Saffron in paella as well.
I was never coordinated enough but I tried a few times anyway.
Did you ever wok a cat?
I’ve been known to deep fry tamales, is that culturally insensitive? Tastes great when don right.
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