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True that. Before Chobani Americans had yogurt, but it was all that runny stuff that people from other countries wouldn't call yogurt. So same situation basical

• Waterluvian 8y ago
  That sounds really negative. We have middle Eastern immigrants mixing middle Eastern food and Quebecois food. Isn't that exactly what we hope to get out of immigration? We invented something new and wonderful by combining cultures. Maybe I'm just sensitive to the word "appropriation" being used as a blanket for "political correctness." aka. a new form of xenophobia because thou shalt not mix cultures for some reason?
  • jamiek88 8y ago
    Yeah. See: Britain and its Indianised cuisine. Nobody calls or thinks of that as appropriation and I really think that whole thing is overblown, only what I call the ‘college left’ tend to worry about that. It gets blown up on the internet though, you actually see more memes mocking that than actual people bothered about it. It’s silly anyway most American dishes are ultimately from somewhere else originally or use local ingredients to change them.
    • yellowapple 8y ago
      The bar fight scene in Talladega Nights put it perfectly, with Ricky Bobby listing off examples of "American" food and his new French arch-nemesis correcting him with actual countries of origin.
  • pseudalopex 8y ago
    They called shawarma poutine "brilliant", so "cultural appropriation" was probably meant approvingly. Whether or not you agree with the concept, cultural appropriation seems pretty easy to understand. Some things have deep meaning to people, like religious symbols. Other things don't, like most food. Also, many people don't like caricatures of their culture. That's about it.
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