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[From "@tsengputterman - food belongs to whoever bought it"]

@tsengputterman

I think food is so central to diaspora discourse bc it fits neatly into frameworks of multiculturalism (whose food is celebrated), inclusion (whose food is othered), and authenticity (whose food belongs to whom) w/o having to "get political" about colonialism and capitalism
8:07 PM·May 10, 2020

The best thing about colonialism, and there are so many things to choose from, is that it spread the superior British/Dutch (and to a far lesser extent German/French/Spanish) concept of property to the dark parts of the world that were worse off without it

Which means[…]we now properly understand that the person who bought the food is the owner of it
[…]
Who owns jerk chicken? Nobody, because "jerk chicken" is a concept rather than an actual physical item[…]and concepts don't have owners
[…]
I can serve a daiquiri in my restaurant without having to share some imagined connection with Cox based on us (presumably) sharing a skin colour and (unlikely) sharing a national origin
[…]
One of the things about food is that celebrating the food doesn't particularly reflect on anything else: Turkish (or Lebanese, or even Greek according to preference) food's worldwide popularity doesn't generally align with some sort of Turciaphilic cultural aim[…]The same as you can enjoy a couple Taco Bell Grandito's and then wish those lazy Mexicans would stop importing their garbage Latin culture. You can enjoy perogies while enacting internment camps in WWI, have some sushi while not getting worked up about the equally justifiable internment camps in WWII[…]Large numbers of rural Albertans signed onto the wok craze of the late 1960s, support for the (retroactively looking even wiser) Chinese Head Tax was generally unaffected

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