come chat and vibe and vent. hows the first week into black history month treating you? how are you celebrating/ learning? any cool black history info that you wish was more well known?
come chat and vibe and vent. hows the first week into black history month treating you? how are you celebrating/ learning? any cool black history info that you wish was more well known?
I sort of like that my local grocery store has a "foreign" food section. I love my middle-mexi-thainese section. Why yes the couscous should be next to the sushi rice, and the salsa and siracha do go together.
The fact that it's sandwiched between the spices and the sweet baking goods means they have made my shopping very easy.
Western 'multiculturalism' in a liberal nutshell...
Of all the indignities of western capitalism, I can deal with the tahin being next to the tofu. Since I'm a monster who'll eat my tofu scramble with hummus and chili oil.
This reminds me of this quote when Capitalism WAS historically progressive:
Specifically...
But imagine that, but with food
For example, remember Italian cuisine... seems like it wasn't ancient at all?
It's almost funny that the creation of "Authentic Italian food" is contemporaneous with the futurist movement trying to get Italians to eat autoclaved rice with iron shavings and perfume
I remember this reddit post here about it... lmao
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/xb9w5n/reminder_that_italian_fascist_artists_tried_to/
I kinda have no problem with multiculturalism; I want to be around as many cultures as possible, tbh.
I realize it kinda came off wrong, eh... I could explain later...
No, no, you're fine, I figured that you were offhandedly broaching a complicated topic in the Western context.
When I think of multicultural, we also have to think of local-born multiculturalism countries like Yugoslavia (eg. Bosniak + Croat + Serb + Albanian) or Indonesia (eg. many indigenous ethnic groups et languages) as well,
So it's bit funny to see multicultural to refer to such things in the west
Oh yeah, I think I know what you're referring to.
The West (at least North America) is increasingly, at least, multi-racial.
But multicultural? Truly? Not sure about that one.
If anything, cultures get destroyed when they meet contact with American shores... at least, more often than not, it seems.
There's nothing really done to preserve certain cultures or histories, etc.
That's what I'm talking about, brother!
Right, right, I'm basically agreeing with you now!
Yeah, I guess it (western multiculturalism) feels artificial but I feel I shouldn't complain that much, lest a chud misrepresent my argument
It was something that caught on during the 1990s in the West but with a fightback from the ultra-right anyways.
It doesn't have much of a leg to stand on.