Hah, my country stole all the best food. I am British.
Imagine having access to most of the world’s herbs, spices and meats, yet the only culturally significant meal of you country is fish and chips.
You have clearly never eaten a British curry then
I think that is the point. They just went and conquered places with better food and made them part of their empire, so the food then became theirs too.
What did you do with it? Because you sure as fuck havent cooked any of it.
We have loads. Curry, kebab and Chinese are probably some of the more common ones.
One of the intresting things we are taught about unconscious bias, is besides people actively discriminating agianst outer groups, most people simply reserve postive emotions for inner groups leading people to be kinda like this without really realizing it.
So remember don’t just reconsider your views on natinoalism, but consider everyone else probably has unconscious prejudice agianst others, so don’t just attack them for thier views but at least try to educate them.
Then if they continue to be willfully ignorant shrug…
In related news: My local group totally doesn’t have an accent. Everyone else does!
I feel like most Midwestern Americans believe this unironically
I’d go further and say most Americans outside the Southeast US think they don’t have accents. This is the only time the Southeast has ever topped the charts on anything involving intelligence.
it’s true, the true English accent is Scottish English with a hint of polish influence
No, I’m pretty sure it’s Black Country that has no accent.
Right, but that’s just post-hoc rationalisation by Americans crying that their “culture” breaks down to authoritarianism, slavery, and genocide.
? Inner / Outer group psychology isn’t an American thing…it’s a human thing. It’s seen in slightly diffrent ways across the world but is seen universally
Anationalism, yay!
Having lived in like 7 different countries for long periods of time I’m convinced there is no objective measure of the quality of food, art, or music.
There are things that have measures if high quality in Japan that American would find absolutely foul, and the same in the other direction.
This is what our prehistoric ape ancestors on the western plains thought of our prehistoric ape ancestors on the eastern plains half a million years ago. … stupid eastern plains apes >:(
Hot take: if someone says “my country has the best ____” and has not ever lived for an extended period in another country, you can just ignore anything they have to say.
Australia has the best Vegemite.
Canada has the best Poutine.
My country has the best people that come from my country. Fight me.
Even that might not be true, my experience with people from my country is all the best ones go live somewhere else lol.
Fuck…
You make a valid point.
My country has the best anthem written in our language then.
I mean, I like the food in my country, but I would never want to do without the cuisine of foreign countries. Or the culture, or whatever else. Friends 💕
That’s what’s so great about American ‘cuisine’. Everybody comes here and opens up restaurants. We got it all.
There is a reason we are all fat yo.
Sure, but you shouldn’t think that the “ethnic” restaurants in the US are serving what is actually served in their home country. Just about every restaurant tunes their recipes for local tastes. And, since the US is more insular than most countries, the recipes are adjusted a lot more for Americans than for people in other countries.
Nationalism is a archaic ideology that has outlived its usefulness in the modern era of globalised capitalist plundering and climate catastrophe.
Hard to fall for this thinking when you have no favorites.
you don’t have a favorite cheese? heretic!
I use the cheese that is appropriate for the dish.
Even for something like a cheese tray its based on expectations and variety; a plain, spicy, and aged.
I am surrounded by people who have preferences but I will happily go with whatever is cheapest without sacrificing quality.
Now if one of them has a recent genocide, I’m voting for the other one.
This is silly and I love it.
I am silly and I love you.
We were deeply brainwashed to believe we were the best and discovered the world. Never were we enlightened about we being at fault for bootraping the slave market across the Atlantic. Ups, a silly omission in our history lessons.
