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It sounds culturally insensitive at best, but this feels awkwardly racist due to the literal translation. I don't think this phenomenon would get as much press

It sounds culturally insensitive at best, but this feels awkwardly racist due to the literal translation. I don't think this phenomenon would get as much press coverage if it was about 'black' or 'yellow' people food.

AlecSchueler 3y ago
Isn't that part of the point, to highlight and poke fun at the exoticisation and othering of non-white people even in non-hateful contexts?
FreshStart 3y ago
It's very Han, they are just like that, relax and enjoy, the whole sensibilities western thing never flew behind the language barriers and outside of the western studied upper crust.
- snowpid 3y ago
  I doubt that Han Chinese are relaxed on political issues.
  - subjectsigma 3y ago
    He means culture war-style political issues. I am not Chinese but it’s my understanding that they are way less fussed about being “politically correct” as an American would understand it. Calling someone “a Black” or “an Asian” in American English sounds rude but in other cultures it doesn’t.
    - eska 3y ago
      You think Chinese would be relaxed if a white person called their cuisine “yellow food”? I don’t believe that for a second.
bunga-bunga 3y ago
Make no mistake, Asians are unabashedly racist, so you may be onto something. Anyone who lived in East Asia would confirm this. So many “no foreigners allowed” and “Japanese only” places. However, given the context (and equivalence to “healthy food”) it’s hardly racism as you mean it.
- orwin 3y ago
  I have a friend with a Japanese wife he met in California (he's French), they got married in Japan and lived there for a couple years, and their decision to finally come to France was because the racism became aggressive when they were together in public. A white guy alone was fine, a white guy holding hand with a beautiful (subjective, but honestly she could be a model) japanese girl? Even his coworkers were disrespectful, which I find baffling.
- throwaway384724 3y ago
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AlecSchueler 3y ago

Isn't that part of the point, to highlight and poke fun at the exoticisation and othering of non-white people even in non-hateful contexts?

FreshStart 3y ago

It's very Han, they are just like that, relax and enjoy, the whole sensibilities western thing never flew behind the language barriers and outside of the western studied upper crust.

snowpid 3y ago
I doubt that Han Chinese are relaxed on political issues.
- subjectsigma 3y ago
  He means culture war-style political issues. I am not Chinese but it’s my understanding that they are way less fussed about being “politically correct” as an American would understand it. Calling someone “a Black” or “an Asian” in American English sounds rude but in other cultures it doesn’t.
  - eska 3y ago
    You think Chinese would be relaxed if a white person called their cuisine “yellow food”? I don’t believe that for a second.

bunga-bunga 3y ago

Make no mistake, Asians are unabashedly racist, so you may be onto something. Anyone who lived in East Asia would confirm this. So many “no foreigners allowed” and “Japanese only” places. However, given the context (and equivalence to “healthy food”) it’s hardly racism as you mean it.

orwin 3y ago
I have a friend with a Japanese wife he met in California (he's French), they got married in Japan and lived there for a couple years, and their decision to finally come to France was because the racism became aggressive when they were together in public. A white guy alone was fine, a white guy holding hand with a beautiful (subjective, but honestly she could be a model) japanese girl? Even his coworkers were disrespectful, which I find baffling.
throwaway384724 3y ago
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