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> Italians can not simultaneously claim the pizza for themselves and denounce the US variety as something foreign. Yet they will, because for some reason Itali

> Italians can not simultaneously claim the pizza for themselves and denounce the US variety as something foreign. Yet they will, because for some reason Italians are voracious to appropriate others food culture as their own. I genuinely cannot understand it. Is it ego? Given the attitude even Italian Americans have, that’s my only guess. Every Italian has the “best” recipe for x, but won’t share it because its a “family tradition”. They decry anything that isn’t “authentic Italian cuisine”, despite that being such a nebulous term given how one of the cores of their modern cuisine, tomatoes, is not local to the region. I’ve even had some throw random Italian words into conversations as though they needed to actively prove how “Italian” they were. It’s like, I don’t understand this. I understand being patriotic, but it’s like every single Italian and Italian American has been incredibly insecure of their heritage, and this possibly extends to the whole country.

namaria 3y ago
Wow that's a big jumble of racist nonsense.
- tourmalinetaco 3y ago
  For one, Italians are not a race. They are at best defined as a distinct ethnic group of the Caucasian race. A race I am apart of. Secondly, nothing of what I wrote is written based on the idea that I am superior to Italians based on their traits. Only that I find their inability to value their culture and appropriation of others’ culture confusing. And finally, your name is “namaria”, which sounds close to “marinara” and is almost an anagram for it. Thus I judge you of being an upsetti spaghetti Italian.
  - namaria 3y ago
    First of all, race is a racist concept. Racism is grouping people arbitrarily and assigning attributes to the whole group. All 'races' are arbitrary groupings. It doesn't matter if you are in the group or not. Saying "all Italians this and that" is racist discourse. Cultural appropriation is a racist concept. Why on Earth should only a certain group of people be allowed this or that? We're all humans, we're all allowed all hairstyles, foods, clothes, languages etc. We all have individual strengths and shortcomings that have squat to do with which group anyone assign us to. And the best food in the world is Italian.

namaria 3y ago

Wow that's a big jumble of racist nonsense.

tourmalinetaco 3y ago
For one, Italians are not a race. They are at best defined as a distinct ethnic group of the Caucasian race. A race I am apart of. Secondly, nothing of what I wrote is written based on the idea that I am superior to Italians based on their traits. Only that I find their inability to value their culture and appropriation of others’ culture confusing. And finally, your name is “namaria”, which sounds close to “marinara” and is almost an anagram for it. Thus I judge you of being an upsetti spaghetti Italian.
- namaria 3y ago
  First of all, race is a racist concept. Racism is grouping people arbitrarily and assigning attributes to the whole group. All 'races' are arbitrary groupings. It doesn't matter if you are in the group or not. Saying "all Italians this and that" is racist discourse. Cultural appropriation is a racist concept. Why on Earth should only a certain group of people be allowed this or that? We're all humans, we're all allowed all hairstyles, foods, clothes, languages etc. We all have individual strengths and shortcomings that have squat to do with which group anyone assign us to. And the best food in the world is Italian.