Cultural Appropriation

[Hand]

Is this a continuance of the micro-aggressed pansy generation or something completely different?

So you walk into the new Korean joint around the corner and discover that (gasp) the head chef is a white guy from Des Moines. What's your gut reaction? Do you want to walk out? Why?

The question of who gets to cook other people's food can be squishy — just like the question of who gets to tell other people's stories. (See: the whole controversy over the casting of the new Nina Simone biopic.)

For some nonwhite Americans, the idea of eating "ethnic cuisine" (and there's a whole other debate about that term) not cooked by someone of that ethnicity can feel like a form of cultural theft. Where does inspiration end? When is riffing off someone's cuisine an homage, and when does it feel like a form of co-opting? And then there's the question of money: If you're financially benefiting from selling the cuisine of others, is that always wrong?

Continued...

[Team Sergeant]

Many restaurants have owners and exec chefs, many cook cuisine based on the local area. That Korean restaurant might have a Korean owner that has taught the white head chef his talents and now he's relaxing as the "owner". And,,, how many Koreans are running around in Iowa to hire as chef?

And yes, we certainly have a micro-aggressed pansy assed cowardly generation that can go F**K themselves.

Until I see patents on culture these sissies can bugger off. When I make Korean bulgogi, its Korean bulgogi, just made by me.

Piss me off enough and I'll be happy to show those sissies what I can do with my lovely German made .45 H&K's.

[mark46th]

So if white guys can't cook out of their culture, how come Juan Gomez from Jalisco or Sinaloa or Oaxaca can cook my burger without prejudice?

[ddoering]

Originally Posted by mark46th

So if white guys can't cook out of their culture, how come Juan Gomez from Jalisco or Sinaloa or Oaxaca can cook my burger without prejudice?

Now you are just flaunting your white privilege.

[SF-TX]

White-boy misappropriating 'black' culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlQ4H0Kdg8

[bailaviborita]

Originally Posted by SF-TX

White-boy misappropriating 'black' culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlQ4H0Kdg8

It would have been better if he had been lynched by a white mob...

[Bleed Green]

Am I flaunting my privilege if I use a lawn mower this summer as that could be considered an appropriation of bovine culture?

[Streck-Fu]

Family Guy nails the parody of race, diversity, and cultures. Because I can't find the video of Brian getting kicked out of an Italian restaurant and yelling back, "You got 12 Mexicans in the kitchen, how can you call that Italian!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juCMR8i3AYE

[akv]

Originally Posted by streckfu

"You got 12 Mexicans in the kitchen, how can you call that Italian!"

LOL absolutely, I see that too maybe the next generation of chefs will all be Hispanic regardless of cuisine.

[abc_123]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

Family Guy nails the parody of race, diversity, and cultures.

All in the Family did a pretty good job too.

[Divemaster]

How many small theater group productions of the Mikado have been shut down because there were no Asians in the troupe? I mean, because Gilbert and Sullivan were so ethnic and stuff I suppose.