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To add a bit of a counter-point, seeing as I found this paragraph recently, here's a section from "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis. It's discussing the experience
by RodericDay 11y ago
To add a bit of a counter-point, seeing as I found this paragraph recently, here's a section from "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis. It's discussing the experience of Sergey Aleynikov, the Goldman Sachs hacker that later got sued, when coming to America:
> He arrived in New York city in 1990 and moved into a dorm room at the 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, a sort of Jewish YMCA. Two things shocked him about his new home: the diversity of the people on the streets and the fantastic range of foods in the grocery stores. He took photographs of the rows and rows of sausages in Manhattan and mailed them to his mother in Moscow. "I'd never seen so many sausages," he says. But once he'd marveled at the American cornucopia, he stepped back from it all and wondered just how necessary all of this food was.
> [...]
> In the end he became a finicky vegetarian."
- talmand 11y agoI would say he was just a product of his environment and unconsciously defended the system he was raised in. Many people are blinded to the detriments of their surroundings because it's all they know.
- jarek 11y ago> Many people are blinded to the detriments of their surroundings because it's all they know. Exactly same argument can be used against Western-style cornucopia-of-false-choices stores, or anything else at all for that matter.
- talmand 11y agoThat is quite correct. Makes it a solid argument.
- bko 11y agoAmerica has great options for vegetarians. In a lot of languages there isn't even a native word for vegetarian, not to mention vegan.
- jarek 11y agoThe English word "vegetarian" was formed in 19th century from a Latin-via-French word combined with a Latin-via-French suffix. Not quite as Old English as "meat"...
- kruhft 11y agoFrom my memory, the term for 'vegetarian' prior to ~100 years ago was 'pythagorian'.
- smacktoward 11y agoOr "peasant."
- tmaly 11y agoI am hoping to make those options more visible