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  • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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    10 months ago

    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.

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I kinda have no problem with multiculturalism; I want to be around as many cultures as possible, tbh.

          • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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            10 months ago

            No, no, you're fine, I figured that you were offhandedly broaching a complicated topic in the Western context.

            • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              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

              • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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                10 months ago

                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.

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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        10 months ago

        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.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          This reminds me of this quote when Capitalism WAS historically progressive:

          Specifically...

          It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.

          But imagine that, but with food

          For example, remember Italian cuisine... seems like it wasn't ancient at all?

          • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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            10 months ago

            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

            • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              I remember this reddit post here about it... lmao

              https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/xb9w5n/reminder_that_italian_fascist_artists_tried_to/