Let's also fire every employee who works at a fast food restaurant who's ethnicity doesn't align with their own. And also get rid of all franchises of ~non-Western~ food.
I believe cultural appropriation exists ,but people go to far with cultural appropriation especially when almost all cultures on both the continents of North and South American and the Caribbean are just a mixed(albeit not willingly) blend of cultures outside of strict practicing Native American ethnic groups.
It's like when people tried to call out Nicki Minaj for wearing a "Native American headress" despite the fact that Native American culture is intertwined with Trini culture as well as other cultures in our region. Like I believe in cultural appropriation but people do way too much.
Diep Nguyen, a College first-year from Vietnam, jumped with excitement at the sight of Vietnamese food on Stevenson Dining Hall’s menu at Orientation this year. Craving Vietnamese comfort food, Nguyen rushed to the food station with high hopes. What she got, however, was a total disappointment. The traditional Banh Mi Vietnamese sandwich that Stevenson Dining Hall promised turned out to be a cheap imitation of the East Asian dish.
Instead of a crispy baguette with grilled pork, pate, pickled vegetables and fresh herbs, the sandwich used ciabatta bread, pulled pork and coleslaw. “It was ridiculous,” Nguyen said. “How could they just throw out something completely different and label it as another country’s traditional food?”
This is the dumbest thing ever. Banh Mi is not even a "Vietnamese traditional food". It's litterally French Bread
im all for political correctness but funny enough the ones who are so ott about these things aren't poc...like they're doing the most to the point where it's insulting & (kind of comical for them) to actual "offensive" things/situations etc.
the irony is that there is something just so inherently smug and white about this
of all things for her to speak up on...
The crazy thing is that this cultural appropriation thing was started 3-4 years ago by people who aren't even minorities. I'm sure Japanese aren't mad people all over the world are eating sushi. Leave to Lena to speak for Japanese people
Sushi in the US was brought to/commercialised by Koreans who were trying to make a living when they immigrated from Japanese occupied Korea to the States. Sushi in the states has never been authentic because there's no way White people were going to eat authentic sushi. Koreans put avo and **** in it so White people would eat it. So......
You cannot appropriate food. That is the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. It's ****ing food who gives a ****.