Thanks Rebelbase. Why is she culturally appropriating the use of English and moveable type?
Posted on 08/05/2018 8:13:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase
(snip) According to the press release, National Geographic’s Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, scheduled to air next year, promises ‘three key ingredients: unlocking a culture’s culinary secrets through exploration and adventure with local food heroes; tracking down high-octane traditions, pastimes and customs that are specific to the region in hopes of discovering the undiscovered; and, finally, testing Ramsay against the locals, pitting his own interpretations of regional dishes against the tried-and-true classics.’
Let’s look at all three elements.
The first two are about a sweary, loud-mouthed chef with little understanding of a country’s cuisine, traipsing around with a camera crew, ‘discovering’ their centuries-old ‘culinary secrets’, traditions and customs.
And let’s not forget the bit about ‘local food heroes’ – but why not ask the said heroes to front their own TV show? Why does it take a white chef to ‘discover’ their cuisine and present it as if it were a spectator sport?
Let the experts speak about their own food, let them tell their own stories and please, let’s not turn this into entertainment to prod, poke and point a finger at.
The ‘undiscovered’ has remained undiscovered – to a foreign audience anyway – precisely because the so-called ‘natives’ have been given little opportunity to talk about it.
It’s the third part of the statement that’s had everyone riled though.
Good thing we live in America, the melting pot.
We don’t just appropriate everybody’s food. We change it to fit our tastes.
Good thing we live in America, the melting pot.
We don’t just appropriate everybody’s food. We change it to fit our tastes.
“If I followed true to my ancestor’s culture, I’d be stuck eating haggis, potatoes, and some weird cod dishes.”
What ethnicity are YOU from? Haggis is Scots; potatoes are Andean South American; cod is a Western Hemisphere, North Atlantic fish.
Turnips and herring and Atlantic Salmon would go with Haggis.
Bravo! Yes. Without the creativity of the white man they'd be riding ox carts, living in thatch huts, eating bugs, and sh*tting in the streets … Oh, wait! They still eat bugs and sh*t in the streets.
Western haircut, dress from London and a watch from Switzerland. I bet she has on a bra and panties. She should STHU.
“Who does she think invented television/computers/internet/magazines/modernlife??????????”
Duh. White people oppressed every one of those things out of the superior cultures of the rest of the world.
You don’t understand how the patriarchy works at all.
My Dad worked with an Italian guy who gave his sauce recipe —which he himself called “Dago Spaghetti Sauce” — to my mother. No one in my family is even remotely Italian, but Mom made the sauce often and we sure enjoyed it. I guess this guy should be considered some kind of traitor.
They need to go back to Swahili, or whatever hell language they spoke before appropriating the beautiful English language. I realize that in some cases they were forced to switch. But now they are perfectly free to go back, and should, since they haven’t learned to speak it in 300 years anyway.
The Indians stole most of their good cooking ideas from the Chinese.
Gordon Ramsey trying to slide into the sweaty sneaks of Tony Bourdain?
What about people who are mixed race or ethnicity? Do they have to invent their own food, with no references to any other foods?
I culturally appropriate food every day, and I enjoy every bite. I intend to continue doing so until somebody grabs the fork out of my cold, dead hand.
Pass the salsa.
Thanks Rebelbase. Why is she culturally appropriating the use of English and moveable type?
Wine? she didn’t make that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_wine
The modern wine market in India is small; annual per capita consumption of wine in the country is a mere 9 milliliters, approximately 1/8000th that of France.
Viticulture in India has a long history dating back to the time of the Indus Valley civilization when grapevines were believed to have been introduced from Persia. Winemaking has existed throughout most of India’s history but was particularly encouraged during the time of the Portuguese and British colonization of the subcontinent. The end of the 19th century saw the phylloxera louse take its toll on the Indian wine industry followed by religious and public opinion moving towards the prohibition of alcohol. Following the country’s independence from the British Empire, the Constitution of India declared that one of the government’s aims was the total prohibition of alcohol.[citation needed] Several states went dry[citation needed] and the government encouraged vineyards to convert to table grape and raisin production. In the 1980s and 1990s, a revival in the Indian wine industry took place as international influences and the growing middle class started increasing demand for the beverage. By the turn of the 21st century, demand was increasing at a rate of 20-30% a year. The city of Nashik in the state of Maharashtra is called the “Wine Capital of India.”
she’s okay with tech teams in India and China culturally appropriating my job.
That POS author is culturally appropriation my white culture. Ditch the wine, the wineglass, the watch, the synthetic fabrics, and the underwear, you stupid tw@t.
Actually, dungarees are from India, so anyone and anyone who isn’t an Indian, from India, can’t wear that material!
She doesn’t seem to understand capitalism... object is to persuade viewers who are mostly white English speakers to watch the show and buy things from advertisers whose ads are featured at intervals throughout the show.
This has nothing to do with fairness, nor should it.
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