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Washington Post food writer sparks backlash by saying that calling foreign food 'exotic' reinforces xenophobia and racism
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 08 2021 | HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER

Posted on 07/08/2021 11:13:18 PM PDT by knighthawk

A food writer from the Washington Post sparked outrage after saying that foreign food should no longer be called 'exotic' because it reinforces xenophobia and racism.

In a Wednesday perspective piece for the paper, G. Daniela Galarza complained about recent responses she received to a story, with critics mentioning the recipe she described as being 'exotic'.

'Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially, I wasn’t even sure why,' Galarza wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danielagalarza; exotic; racism; washingtonpost

1 posted on 07/08/2021 11:13:18 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
How do you feel about “ethnic?“

Trick question. Don’t care.

2 posted on 07/08/2021 11:20:23 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

There is no foreign food. There’s only food I like, and food I don’t like, for various reasons. If people somewhere else eat it, and it’s good, bring it on.

These people who wish to Balkanize the US need to be derided until they quit.


3 posted on 07/08/2021 11:31:41 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: knighthawk

who are these people to demand we talk and think in ways approved only by them?

ignore them and continue to speak the way you want to

laugh and humiliate them when they say this crap

who made you the boss of the world

your worldview is no better than mine, go eff off in the corner over there alone, no one wants you around


4 posted on 07/08/2021 11:39:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: knighthawk

What about Cobra Vine, Rat’s ears, Monkey brains, Bull’s eyes, roasted Fruit bat or Dog stew?
Just another version of Apple Pie?


5 posted on 07/08/2021 11:40:14 PM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: knighthawk

They have it so good they have to find reasons to be angry and offended.


6 posted on 07/09/2021 12:20:03 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: knighthawk

The Leftist idiocy continues on with each passing day......


7 posted on 07/09/2021 12:33:02 AM PDT by cranked
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To: knighthawk

While the Wash Red Post bannerline says that “Democracy Dies in Darkness”, the real saying about the Post is “Stupidity Thrives at the Post”.


8 posted on 07/09/2021 12:37:28 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: AZJeep

heck, what about balut?


9 posted on 07/09/2021 1:54:04 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc
heck, what about balut?

I have never tried it. I can’t past the thought of what it is. I can’t handle durian or dinuguan either. 😀

10 posted on 07/09/2021 2:21:53 AM PDT by Mark17 (US Air Force, retired. Father of US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained combat pilot )
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To: Secret Agent Man

There isn’t a CHINAMAN’S CHANCE of me ever engaging in this wokeist newspeak


11 posted on 07/09/2021 3:21:58 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: knighthawk

12 posted on 07/09/2021 3:47:06 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: knighthawk

‘Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially, I wasn’t even sure why,

Mebe cause you are insane!


13 posted on 07/09/2021 3:52:12 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: knighthawk

Exotic

1) : introduced from another country : not native to the place where found

2) : strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual

late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’.

Seems like the correct word for foreign foods.


14 posted on 07/09/2021 4:04:14 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: knighthawk

Never heard food being called exotic.


15 posted on 07/09/2021 5:36:01 AM PDT by bgill
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To: LadyDoc

Oh, just a version of all American ham and eggs!


16 posted on 07/09/2021 5:58:06 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: knighthawk
'Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially, I wasn’t even sure why,'

She must wonder why she gets slapped so much.

17 posted on 07/09/2021 6:06:30 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: knighthawk
'Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially, I wasn’t even sure why,' Galarza wrote.

Because you crazy diva why.

18 posted on 07/09/2021 8:02:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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