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Only about one-quarter of Indians eat beef, so it's not at all safe to assume that any random group of Indians you encounter will be majority beef-eaters.
by kyllo 7y ago
Only about one-quarter of Indians eat beef, so it's not at all safe to assume that any random group of Indians you encounter will be majority beef-eaters.
- oh_sigh 7y agoWell then they can get the pork chop
- AstralStorm 7y agoThat reduces it to just over half Indians, the other is vegetarian.
- bastawhiz 7y agoThen maybe they should have used the extra five brain cycles to decide to offer a pork chop dinner instead.
- oh_sigh 7y agoPerson A: Do you want to get tacos for lunch? Person B: Sure - goes to taco stand - Person A: 3 tacos please Person B: I'll take the enchiladas Person A: Oh my god, we were supposed to be getting tacos for lunch. How could you do this to me?
- bastawhiz 7y agoThe metaphor doesn't work. You wouldn't dangle a steak dinner as a reward to a group of people who you could reasonably assume were mostly vegan. The intended reward _is_ the steak, because steak is expensive and delicious when prepared well. Yes, you could order a nice salad, but don't you think it sort of misses the point? It's not on the employee to enjoy the reward they're being offered, it's on the management to pick a reward that's valued by the employee. And sometimes, that means having even a tiny bit of cultural sensitivity.
- oh_sigh 7y ago'Steak dinner' is an American English idiom for 'a nice meal'. And it isn't culturally sensitive to assume that a group of Indians are vegans.
- kyllo 7y agoThat's debatable, I'm American and would take an offer of a "steak dinner" to literally mean steak. Even presupposing you're correct that it's generally understood by Americans as an idiom, assuming that non-Americans understand American idioms is a form of ignorance, if not deliberate arrogance. No one's saying "assume they are vegans," we're saying "don't assume they eat meat." Big difference.
- egypturnash 7y agoI'm American and if someone offered me "a steak dinner" I would expect to be taken to a steakhouse, where steak was pretty much the only item on the menu.
- bastawhiz 7y agoI'm American, and if someone told me they're taking me out for a steak dinner, I'd immediately assume we were going to a steakhouse. It couldn't be any less of an idiom. If they took me out for pork chops, I would be completely and utterly confused.
- addicted 7y agoPork isn’t popular amongst meat eating Indians either. Just look at your local Indian restaurant menu. You will see very few, if any, pork dishes.
- perl4ever 7y agoI don't think I've ever been in an Indian restaurant that has pork or beef on the menu, but that's in my corner of the US. Pretty much universally, they have chicken, lamb, goat, seafood, and vegetarian versions.
- kyllo 7y agoPork is probably even less popular than beef among Indians. At least a lot of the Muslims eat beef, but they don't eat pork. A majority of the Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs eat neither. For real, any corporation employing a significant proportion of Indian people (hell, even non-Indian people too) should be culturally sensitive enough to know that any offer of a morale dinner must feature vegetarian options. This is basic cultural sensitivity and anyone who doesn't understand this has no business managing people.
- thtthings 7y agoone quarter? Who told you that? Less than 1/10th percent Indians eat beef.