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She's most likely some upper middle class privileged white woman "journalist" (used very loose) who thinks she knows everything about a place because she spent
by Dirlewanger 8y ago
She's most likely some upper middle class privileged white woman "journalist" (used very loose) who thinks she knows everything about a place because she spent a week there.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThe entire article is praising chicha's cultural value and lamenting its passing. I'm struggling to understand why one sentence--"Frothy and milky in texture, the corn-based, alcoholic brew tastes a bit like the inside of a new shoe"--apparently turns it into vicious imperialism. It's not even that negative! The inside of a new shoe isn't a smell I associate with deliciousness, but it's not really unpleasant. I feel like you're demanding that she lie and say it was the best thing she ever tasted.
- ingenieros 8y agoImperialism and eurocentrism are two entirely different things so please look up the definitions before you try to put words into my mouth. Second, I am not demanding that she lies, but to simply be a bit less condescending towards local traditions. I guess I expect a bit more from a publication such as Atlas Obscura than to have their writers sound like characters out of a Tom Clancy novel. Lastly, she lifted most of her "research" from this popular blog entry from nearly six years ago and didn't bother to credit its author: https://www.historiacocina.com/es/cerveza-colombia https://www.historiacocina.com/es/cerveza-colombia