"Americanized Asian food is cultural appropriation"-Oberlin
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In an article published last month in the school’s newspaper, the Oberlin Review, several international students from Asian countries raised complaints (understandably!) about how the “Asian” food in their cafeterias was disappointing, ridiculous, and “weird.”
But the article didn’t just convey that students thought the food was bad. Instead, the students told reporter Clover Linh Tran, a sophomore and co-chair of the Vietnamese Student Association, that the dining halls had offended them—that to serve such a terrible version of dishes from their home countries was “disrespectful” and amounted to nothing less than cultural appropriation. As Tomoyo Joshi, a college junior from Japan, told the paper: “If people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative.”
As a result of the article, students from three of the school’s Asian communities recently met with Campus Dining Services to discuss their concerns. And they succeeded: According to the Times,
Michele Gross, Oberlin’s director of dining services, said in a statement on Monday that “in our efforts to provide a vibrant menu, we recently fell short in the execution of several dishes in a manner that was culturally insensitive.”
This is the same for all foods in America, whether it be "Italian," "Chinese," "Japanese," "German," "Mexican," etc. If you want the real deal, go to an authentic restaurant run by people actually from that culture, not a school cafeteria.
This is the same for all foods in America, whether it be "Italian," "Chinese," "Japanese," "German," "Mexican," etc. If you want the real deal, go to an authentic restaurant run by people actually from that culture, not a school cafeteria.
weren't some of the american versions of asian foods created by actual asian people though? like the california roll was created by a japanese immigrant, even though it doesn't exist in actual asian sushi. most asian/italian/indian etc. fast food places that exist in the west aren't authentic because they were changed to fit a typical westerner's taste so they would like them, I don't think anybody thinks it's actually authentic
So they expect some people who probably never went to culinary school and probably make just about minimum wage to prepare authentic cuisine when they've probably never had the luxury of leaving the country. Ok then.
This Isn't No Mexican Food. 
im getting deja vu from this but get em (again)