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Clench281 posted...

If it's being used to mislead people as "try this new dish/preparation so you can experience the same food the same way that AMERICANS eat it" then yeah, I'd also say that's not right. Though generic chain pizza isn't really that ethnically important to most people I'd wager. Maybe there's something in local pizza preferences (deep dish vs new york style) that would get people more up in arms.

at the same time, literally none of our "Chinese" food is actually Chinese. those are not steamed dumplings, those are Gyoza. 99.9% of the Japanese restaraunts in America sold or closed in the 1940s. i don't recall the specifics, but apprently the Japanese were like, really realy unpopular here in the 40's for some strange reason...the Chinese immigrants at the time scooped up their businesses, literally in place, overnight, and with stocked freezers for pennies on the dollar and to this day the dishes they typically serve are now what we call "chinese food" despite being as chinese as I am.

i haven't seen any whinging and gnashing of teeth over that wholesale "cultural appropriation" in [current year].

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