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One of my colleagues was a stanford-undergraduate, harvard-grad-school (at the time biochemistry postdoc) who grew up in china. He was somehow fed information
by dnautics 7y ago
One of my colleagues was a stanford-undergraduate, harvard-grad-school (at the time biochemistry postdoc) who grew up in china. He was somehow fed information that Muslims don't eat pork because they worship pigs. I tried to correct him but he was insistent that he was correct. An otherwise extremely intelligent human who had no difficulty reconciling conflicting evidence and information (e.g. in science)
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- v-yadli 7y agoCurious: how did you correct him? Also just FYI, the Muslim people live with Han people together in most areas of China (you can just go to about any cities in China and start sampling) and most Han people have learned to respect the Muslim religion, to not even talk about pigs, pork or even spam in front of them. I think the "worshiping pigs" misconception may just come as a result of good will trying to avoid embarrassment and conflicts and not talking about any of that at all, and thus the ignorance.
- vinni2 7y agoHe is probably confusing it for a Hindu belief which prohibits them from eating beef because Hindus worship cows!