Lena Dunham Believes Serving Sushi is "Cultural Appropriation"

[rsacamano]

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[jtuck004]

1. Surely he has better things to make news out of. n/t

[jonno99]

2. Sigh...nt

[uhnope]

3. I am so offended on St. Patricks Day when everyone pretends to be Irish

a total appropriation of Irish heritage. How dare you!

JUST KIDDING of course. I think it's the lamest academic claptrap to come down the pipe in decades

[MynameisBlarney]

4. This is satire? No audio so I can't tell, but in case it ain't...

[hobbit709]

5. How about the double cultural appropriation of eating pasta?

[cab67]

7. Depending on how the sauce is made, it's more than double -

Tomatoes originated in the Western Hemisphere, and were brought to Europe during the 16th or 17th centuries, where they were rarely eaten for a long time on the theory that they might be poisonous. (They're related to nightshade.) Tomato-based pasta sauce served in the US can be seen as a back-cross.

Some of the other ingredients often used are Asian (black pepper, garlic) or from the Western Hemisphere and came to Italy indirectly through central Europe (e.g. paprika).

[IronLionZion]

6. I've actually made a similar argument about American food

When international students come here and eat the garbage in a school's dining hall it is hardly representative of our cuisine. It's just not very good.

But that's no reason to not serve it. Not everyone can afford to go to restaurants or has the means to cook the authentic stuff. People need to eat somehow.

The whole cultural appropriation around food is kind of laughable to me. Of course food from the home country, or cooked by someone who is from that culture is going to be better. But I don't believe it is disrespectful to the culture to serve it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Too much anti-appropriation.

Yes, wearing First Nations headdresses without express invitation IS cultural appropriation and is to be rejected.

But some of this agitation goes to ridiculous lengths.

What next? Telling us we can't play Mozart because that is cultural appropriation? Nuts.