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| Topic | Is it fair for someone born outside of a culture to..... |
| Zeus_LLC 10/09/20 9:18:30 PM #4: | Clench281 posted... An example might be if you lived in an area where poor immigrants of a 'novel ethnicity' started moving. If someone with lots of capital opened a hoity toity dining establishment, portraying it as providing authentic < ethnicity's > dining... While not even employing anyone from that ethnicity, then it's exploiting that group. As people are benefiting from that culture, while giving nothing in return to that group. "Representation" in that cases matters less than authenticity. If the food is actually authentic, it doesn't matter who's making it. And unless the people from that ethnicity are both experts on the cuisine and actually working in the kitchen, hiring people from the group doesn't change the question of authenticity. I've known countless people from certain culture heritages who wouldn't even qualify as amateurs when it comes to making the food associated with their ancestry. Clench281 posted... As people are benefiting from that culture, while giving nothing in return to that group. Nobody owns a culture, and the idea that reparations are somehow owed for making food associated with a culture is ludicrously backwards. And ideally you WANT people to embrace other cultures, so promoting cultural segregation is generally terrible for society. --- (\/)(\/)|-| ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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