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But here’s the thing: In many respects, I also recommend eating with a white sushi chef. He’s probably had to train a lot harder and knows a little bit more abo
by huac 11y ago
But here’s the thing: In many respects, I also recommend eating with a white sushi chef. He’s probably had to train a lot harder and knows a little bit more about what is actually going on then, let’s say, someone who can just land a sushi job just because he is Asian; in that sense, they literally bring nothing to the table besides being Asian.
yeah, after your story of how common it is to be beaten or forced to wash rice and fish for years among sushi apprentices, it makes sense that asian sushi chefs got their jobs 'literally' for being asian. oh also they're dumb
(additionally, it's ludicrous to use 'asian' as a stand-in here: any non-japanese prospective apprentice would likely be treated with disdain)
- mazerackham 11y ago+1, I was gonna post about this quote. Extremely short sighted and offensive. > they literally bring nothing to the table besides being Asian Thanks for qualifying any Asian person as being nothing more than their race. I know it wasn't intentional, and the discrimination you face sucks, but please think more deeply when you write about race, especially races other than your own.
- icebraining 11y agoYou missed the "in that sense", which provides context to that statement.
- mazerackham 11y agoI don't understand how "in that sense" qualifies the meaning differently. That does "that sense" refer to exactly?
- icebraining 11y agoBy that, I believe it's meant "particular qualities that make the candidate better suited for a sushi job".
- greggman 11y agoI'm not sure if I'm taking something out of context but if you believe sushi is a Japanese thing there are plenty of sushi restaurants all over America masquerading as Japanese sushi but actually run by Koreans or Chinese with zero formal training. I know that the race of the chef is orthogonal to whether or not the sushi is good. But I'm also pretty confident that many sushi restaurants, especially in the west, are purposely being deceptive about what they claim to be representing. I assumed the message above wasn't about claiming all asians are alike. Rather it's claiming that many people, especially non-asians can't tell the difference and so having an asian of any background is enough to fake out most customers on those areas.