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The Cultural Appropriation of My Lunch
Medium ^ | 11/26/18 | Madhura Rao

Posted on 12/07/2018 2:20:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

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To: ProtectOurFreedom

[I believed that food was a way to bring people across the world closer to one another.]

Yay! Celebrate diversity! And the New World Order!


21 posted on 12/07/2018 2:44:53 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Before I left my home in Mumbai to study in the Netherlands,...”

IOW, there to appropriate Dutch culture.


22 posted on 12/07/2018 2:46:42 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA (.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My, isn’t she special?


23 posted on 12/07/2018 2:49:26 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I rented a room one time and in the same apartment were some Chinese students renting rooms as well. Every day I would smell the most disgusting smell of garlic and onions wafting up from the kitchen to my room (which was right above the kitchen). I hated that.

It’s one thing though to prepare your stinky food in your own home, as my Chinese roommates had every right to do (much to my chagrin). But entirely another to bring your stinky food to a conference and then get offended when someone says something about it.

This woman is living in the Netherlands yet expects her countrymen to accept her stinky, slob like eating habits instead of the other way around. If she were in India and some European were complaining about her food smell or habits that would be one thing. But she is in another country another culture yet is offended when they are offended by her food habits.

She should ask herself who’s really trying to “appropriate” who’s culture. Seems to be she’s the guilty party here.


24 posted on 12/07/2018 2:52:36 PM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Your lunch stinks.

Get over it.

25 posted on 12/07/2018 2:55:26 PM PST by IronJack
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Madhura needs to spend more time with Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton.


26 posted on 12/07/2018 3:00:05 PM PST by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Sans-Culotte
I suppose at buffalo chicken wings with a knife and fork??

And your ready use of repulsive outhouse vulgarities makes me think you would not be a very refined lunch companion.

So, please stay at your own table. I'm going to go exchange pleasantries with Madhura Rao. We all have our own tastes. Yours, I don't care for.

27 posted on 12/07/2018 3:03:06 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (I was deplorable before deplorable was cool.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They were the ones in hot sauce... Burp! I love ‘em!


28 posted on 12/07/2018 3:06:00 PM PST by W. (I'm tired of cleaning up after autokorrect. Wish it would die!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

First they brought in the curry,

Then it was kimchi

Next it will be Limburger

But I draw the line at Surströmming


29 posted on 12/07/2018 3:06:15 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol

Natto’s no walk in the park either.


30 posted on 12/07/2018 3:23:55 PM PST by KyCats
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Kids in Sweden laughed at me for switching my fork to my right hand. They were still kind and welcoming.

I’ve read enough about Japanese thinking that Westerners smell bad that I would be afraid to eat meat or wear scent if visiting there.


31 posted on 12/07/2018 3:30:34 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
People who eat messy curry dishes with their fingers should stay in their 3rd world s***holes.

Because they could never eat BBQ ribs without making a mess, or could never be trained to properly twirls pasta with a fork?

32 posted on 12/07/2018 3:35:06 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hi.

We had fried chicken collards potato salad and watermelon today.

Does that make me and the First lady cultural appropriators?

(Is that a word?)

5.56mm


33 posted on 12/07/2018 3:37:19 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: M Kehoe

Damn, forgot the pan fried corn bread.

Yum.

5.56mm


34 posted on 12/07/2018 3:39:46 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: W.

You could bring to work a stargazy pie...


35 posted on 12/07/2018 3:41:38 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

When I eat in middle eastern homes or Indian homes or Native homes I always follow one rule..... when in Rome


36 posted on 12/07/2018 3:45:26 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
...buffalo chicken wings with a knife and fork??

I do, if I'm mulitasking, and need one or both hands clean.

I even use chopsticks with wings.

37 posted on 12/07/2018 3:46:29 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Crucial
Using eating utensils is more hygienic than eating with your fingers. Anyone is free to adopt that cultural practice from Westerners. I won’t get mad.

I agree! Don't come over here and bring the third world hygiene with you!

38 posted on 12/07/2018 3:50:47 PM PST by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE! However, Roman Catholicism has, does, and will change.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Curry should only be allowed to be cooked or eaten in rooms with 30 foot cement walls.


39 posted on 12/07/2018 3:56:13 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Nifster; ProtectOurFreedom

Tagline.


40 posted on 12/07/2018 3:57:58 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville." - Flannery O'Connor)
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