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The issue I take with this is that American assimilation is a two way street. Every culture puts in and takes out. Tacos, sausages, pizza, sushi, these are Amer
by rezistik 11y ago
The issue I take with this is that American assimilation is a two way street. Every culture puts in and takes out. Tacos, sausages, pizza, sushi, these are American foods as much as they are Mexican, German, Japanese, or Italian. Some of them more American than their source in ways. It's not about forcing White Angle-Saxon culture. It's about forging American culture and identity.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10947696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10947696 and marked it off-topic.
- crpatino 11y agoSo, because you eat tacos, you understand me? Let's try, please let me know when you know at least half of this kind of tacos (the animal is beef unless otherwise specified) of your list. Maybe we can have an interesting conversation then: 1. Sesos (boiled brains). 2. Lengua (boiled tongue). 3. Tripas (deep fried pork intestine). 4. Moronga(fried pork blood). 5. Ojo (boiled eyeballs). 6. Higado (fried liver). 7. Tuetano(boiled bone marrow). 8. Cuerno (marrow, from the cow's horn). 9. Pepena (fried organ meat, mostly hearth, lungs and intestines). 10. Chicharron (fried porkskin). If you don't think that's gross, I salute you and comend you for being a brave omnivorous. But most white people I know would not touch non-steak meat with a 10 foot pole if they could help it.
- noir_lord 11y agoI'm in the UK, I've eaten most of those but not in taco's 2) I quite like a tongue sandwich. 3) Tripe is not my cup of tea but I've had it 4) Fried pork blood, we have a thing here called black pudding (it's congealed blood soaked in oats, then fried, it's damn good and apparenly good for you). 6) Lots of times, don't see it much now, my nan lived on it 7) Used in stocks 10) Pork Scratchings are huge here also damn good but really bad for you. Traditional English cuisine ate everything. Chitlings are pretty grim though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding :)
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- crpatino 11y agoRight, I forgot most European cuisines do make use of the whole animal. I stand corrected. I kind of dislike blood (you have to eat it quickly, or the flavor deteriorates in your very plate before you notice), but otherwise everything that runs, swims or flies is game ;)
- rezistik 11y agoI have eaten most of those but I was tempted to pretend I haven't. My point was a major simplification of how American assimilation happens or I think ideally it should happen. Cultural heritage is important and mixing cultures together is the best version of America in my opinion. I'm saying that American culture is a tapestry of it's subcultures and it's subcultures are sourced far and wide. The idea isn't to go with direct and hard assimilation the way people talk about French assimilation as was mentioned at other points in this thread where immigrants adopt French mannerisms but that American immigrants adopt some American mannerisms while bringing their own that other Americans adopt. I used really simple and identifiable culture parts like food.
- rezistik 11y agoI have eaten most of those but I was tempted to pretend I haven't. My point was a major simplification of how American assimilation happens or I think ideally it should happen. Cultural heritage is important and mixing cultures together is the best version of America in my opinion. I'm saying that American culture is a tapestry of it's subcultures and it's subcultures are sourced far and wide. The idea isn't to go with direct and hard assimilation the way people talk about French assimilation as was mentioned at other points in this thread where immigrants adopt French mannerisms but that American immigrants adopt some American mannerisms while bringing their own that other Americans adopt. I used really simple and identifiable culture parts like food.