Not to insult, but this sounds like cope and rationalization to me. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. I come from a very, very diverse background and have a very diverse family, including my own personal one. There are 5 ethnicities in my immediate family. I've lived in a couple of very diverse cities most of my life. I've had all the food. It's nice, it's good. But when I hear people say they want to stay in a city due to "diversity" and usually mentioning Chinese take out and sushi, all I hear is a daft white person not realizing they're saying they like cities because the poor immigrants perform services that make their lives better.

The link you are imagining between enjoying varied food and hierarchical racism is an insane leap to make so generally. You must see that. It seems that you think cities only exist to serve white people but as is the point, cities are often diverse, which is why they can support restaurants that serve different cuisines.

This isn't a very productive discussion, we could both be imagining entirely different cities and situations. I live in Australia, so I can't speak for American cities. The diversity in cuisine here comes from our now decades of immigration policies, people tend to immigrate for study or work, both of those things concentrate in cities, voila you have massive mixed communities serving mixed cuisines to that now multi-generational mixed community.

> all I hear is a daft white person not realizing they're saying they like cities because the poor immigrants perform services that make their lives better.

Your comments and thought process is racist as fuck.

Do BIPOC not enjoy “ethnic food”? Do you not have any BIPOC friends? These “daft white person” you converse with what’s their educational background look like?

Lol I'm racist. For calling out upper middle class white people who treat immigrants as some resource to enjoy at their leisure. You sound defensive.

Immigrants usually don't leave their homelands to move to a foreign country to eat the food. Usually they do it to improve their financial lives. They probably enjoy it, but if you ask them "why did you move to Atlanta from Mogadishu" the restaurants probably won't be at the top of the list like it is for snotty white people.

Nobody calls themselves BIPOC. That's another thing snotty white people do. Yes I have friends from different backgrounds, also family. Probably more than you do TBH.

The people I converse with that say this stuff, usually it's people with backgrounds probably like the average on this site. Probably quite like you if I had to guess.