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 (DIR) Post #ABKXrzNsWt6yt05ABs by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2021-09-13T20:01:20Z
       
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       me when people make generalizations about "asian" food
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKZamVFMs5VvBS2Ou by isagalaev@mastodon.social
       2021-09-13T20:34:13Z
       
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       @technomancy but it's just a shorthand name for a particular set of techniques and flavors that makes sense to western people. Nobody thinks about, say, Central Asian cuisine, when talking about "asian food". Same as when people talk about "American music", nobody thinks about South America. I don't think it's a problem. Natural languages don't have to adhere to precise taxonomies.
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKZan3HKLJHcjNDRg by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2021-09-13T20:38:24Z
       
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       @isagalaev actually I do think that using "American" to mean "from the USA, excluding every other country on the hemisphere" is almost as bad.(and Lao food has next to nothing in common with Korean food or Indian food)
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKZanfD3JeRWN7VZI by isagalaev@mastodon.social
       2021-09-13T20:51:00Z
       
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       @technomancy but why is it "bad"? It's simply how people are used to talk, there's no pejorative/negative connotations to any of it. Details will always get lost in how people adopt terms across cultures.The point of the term "asian food" is to distinguish flavors brought by immigrants from China and Japan into Western diet from those adopted from French and Italian cooking (I'm simplifying). The term makes sense and serves a purpose.
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKZaoG4qF8rMiMx28 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2021-09-13T20:54:27Z
       
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       @isagalaev it's bad if it's confusing! when you say "asian food" you're talking about China and Japan but when other people say it they include Malay and Thai, and when other people say it they just mean "food that has spices in it" so no one actually communicates what they intend. it's better if you say what you actually mean.
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKZjTyHdaZx3KBKzY by veer66@mstdn.io
       2021-09-13T21:10:29Z
       
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       @technomancy Virdas talked about this in his video too. Indian is Asian too. 😅 @isagalaev
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKa8ea9K9nDCVtbay by veer66@mstdn.io
       2021-09-13T21:15:01Z
       
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       @isagalaev I think of Alexandro Querevalú when people talk about American music. I don't know if he was from north or south.https://youtube.com/channel/UCmzy78gqhtU1BwnwlDc3ucQ@technomancy
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKd6jAvZk1SjIs7Iu by veer66@mstdn.io
       2021-09-13T21:48:18Z
       
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       @technomancy "food that has spices in it." is probably from Sichuan or North-west China. Thai people (me) didn't know that Chinese food has so many varieties. @isagalaev
       
 (DIR) Post #ABKmTcW7ObSKKMm4y8 by humberto@mastodon.online
       2021-09-13T23:33:15Z
       
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       @veer66 @technomancy @isagalaev That's one thing I loved about Berkeley. You can't say "lets eat Chinese", you get to choose from Hunan, Szechuan, Cantonese, even Mongolian restaurants. Same with latin america: Honduran, Salvadoran, regional mexican, Cuban ...