Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
by dcow on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:31PM
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“Ethnic food” is really what bugs me. WTF does that mean? Explain the cuisine please, I’m a foodie!
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“Look in the ethnic foods isle for your matzo, dried seaweed, ghee and El Yuacteco.”
It’s basically the isle that could be labeled “packaged food for foodies”
This sort of imprecise, reductive othering illustrates what's problematic about the "ethnic foods" aisle (and "ethnic tensions").