Mayim Bialik goes to Olive Garden like, “Ahh, the glories of Rome”
Even getting that excited about good wallpaper would be cringe
putting up wallpaper in my new restaurant that says
‘ᵐᵃᵒ ʷᵃˢ ᶜᵒʳʳᵉᶜᵗ’
UNLIMITED GENOCIDE ON THE FIRST WORLD
healthy, fun, fast!
I never really understood the concept of cultural appropriation. I thought it was a little far-fetched. Then I learned about “Israeli” cuisine and I immediately got it.
I didn’t get it until I learned about “Elizardbeth Warren”
Tsai Ing-Wen is doing an offensive appropriation of the traditional Anglo practice of pretending to be native.
Omg the two even look alike with their glasses
game meats game
I didn’t get it til I saw people copying my culture really badly
I think it’s also easy to see when you’re familiar with some original thing that’s been appropriated across cultural boundaries, the appropriated thing becomes more ubiquitous than the original, and people from the other culture don’t realize where it came from. It doesn’t have to be in bad taste for people to find it grating.
The example I’ve seen is imagining the reactions of white Christian conservatives in the US if suddenly the only version of Jingle Bells that got played on the radio was in Hindi. The Hindi version wouldn’t be badly done. The quality would be fine. But people would FREAK OUT. But then again, American culture prides itself on being a “melting pot” while also being aggressively assimilationist, so maybe that’s not a good example for this point.
I wanted to check out Jingle Bells in Hindi because of this
Ok just turning it into “ding ding ding, ding ding ding” makes me a lil upset. That’s too lazy. Do better.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Santa’s got Parkinson’s
You know, it’s funny, I actually really enjoy seeing foreign interpretations of American culture. Games like Metal Wolf Chaos, for example. It’s kind of fascinating to see yourself through someone else’s eyes.
Of course, I absolutely understand how someone whose culture is sidelined and commodified to the point that it effectively gets overshadowed by a caricature of itself would feel differently. Just one more reason to say fuck imperialism and fuck capitalism.
Metal Wolf Chaos
I RICHARD HAWK AM THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN HERO
I actually really enjoy seeing foreign interpretations of American culture
You may enjoy Pretty Woman from Kal Ho Naa Ho. It’s supposed to be set in NYC iirc
I’ll check it out, thanks!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I think it’s also easy to see when you’re familiar with some original thing that’s been appropriated across cultural boundaries, the appropriated thing becomes more ubiquitous than the original, and people from the other culture don’t realize where it came from. It doesn’t have to be in bad taste for people to find it grating.
Hallowe’en is like this. It’s Irish, but then Americanised Hallowe’en is pushing in.
As a partly Japanese person who doesn’t really watch anime
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Ever see one of those
influencer dudebros that makes videos where they order food from to some exotic foreigner and totally blow them away with how fluent they sound in the foreigner’s language? 
So many white people have this intense fantasy scenario where someone is talking shit about them while speaking another language. I think a lot of the “oh, you speak so fluently” videos appeal to that.
One of my chuddiest blood relatives, a lanyard-wearing middle manager, has a deep fixation on his coworkers “speaking foreign gibberish” around him. I don’t talk or hang around him anymore for good reason, but when I did, almost every conversation was about his most recent transcendent wine tasting experience, or his latest authentic foreign vacation where an authentic rug merchant sold him an authentic exotic rug while authentically haggling with him while offering him authentic homemade tea in his authentic quaint foreign dwelling, or him being really mad at his subordinates for “speaking foreign gibberish” in a way that makes him feel like they’re talking about him… which maybe they are because he’s a piece of shit.
his latest authentic foreign vacation where an authentic rug merchant sold him an authentic exotic rug while authentically haggling with him while offering him authentic homemade tea in his authentic quaint foreign dwelling,
When I rant about “wine cave liberals” I say so because I’ve spent too many years painfully close to Napa Valley.
It’s impressive how exactly similar the discourse you quickly sketched out in your original comment is to what I hear in
from cretins coming back from airplane holidays.Usually combined with insane stuff like “they live so simply”, “they have so little but they’re so happy”, “they really know how to relax”, “they’re so welcoming and authentic”, etc.
I guess “wine cave liberals” are universal across the empire
They like to muse about “simple” lives but are terrified of even the chance of ever having to live one like that. They get very defensive about their colonial treats, don’t they?
Real
energyPlot twist: that relative really likes the American Psycho film in the worst possible blue curtain way.
I actually had this experience once, but it was pretty light shit talking, and was a miracle they happened to use words I understood. Nobody was impressed, but we all laughed.
in my experience people are happy you try and learn their language (unless they’re Icelandic, Icelandic people often feel that the language is so small outside influence would destroy it)
One of the more annoying aspects of living in Japan was when people would assume I couldn’t speak Japanese and would desperately try to speak English, which they very clearly hadn’t used in absolute ages, and basically refuse to speak in Japanese no matter what. There were plenty of people that once I spoke Japanese to them you could see the relief and just went with it. Generally people were happy that I spoke Japanese.
learning someone’s language is to my mind the ultimate mark of respect. It’s a lot of work and you took it to reach out to them
It doesn’t really make sense outside the context of colonial domination. The point isn’t that it’s bad to adopt the customs or ways of other cultures, so much as it is to do so for the purpose of obscuring or eliminating that culture.
My first encounter with the concept of cultural appropriation (without knowing the word at the time) was when I saw my boomer Chinese dad get mad at the fact that there was unlicensed Walmart(a mall that decided to name itself Walmart for whatever reason) in China that had a KFC inside(inauthentic appropriation of burgerland culture) and not Mcdonald’s (authentic).
If I was a Zionist and I walked into a restaurant to see all that shit on the wall looking exactly like the walls of a chain chicken place that say things like Fresh! Zesty! Vibe!, I would immediately conclude that the project deserves to be dead and find a new thing for my life to be about
AUTHENTIC
**AUTHENTIC** AUTHENTICkosher.
ʰᵘᵐᵐᵘˢ
TEL AVIV
help! my colonial movement got gentrified!
It’s always interesting when people fuck up virtue signaling. Like, how do you not know that ethnic cleansing isn’t virtuous?
Imagine someone not particularly intelligent but very clever. It doesn’t take a genius to see who runs shit. A clever person cuddles up to this strength and does their clever best to copy the strong. It doesn’t take a smart person to understand what they’re doing, and the person running the show doesn’t care whether the clever flunkie gets some virtues wrong.
No, the virtue signal sent by the clever person and received by the strong is “i am not a threat, here is my belly, i am your ally.”
It’s a simple defense mechanism by people who truly believe in the authority of authority, and she manages to get it across very well.
Hurr hurr smart guy dunking on her with all those words? He’s technically right, sure, but whether he ignored or missed her point doesn’t matter.
A paragraph teaching us about the history of falafel to someone saying “yes i agree, kill Palestinians” is fun and all but not the fucking dunk we would like it to be
Reminder that there is no such thing as israeli cuisine
i have yet to see a dish touted as “israeli” that hasn’t been stolen from one of the many existing cultures in the region. couscous, hummus, its all stolen.
Israeli couscous, which was actually invented in Israel, is garbage. Can’t even get that right.
says “Free Palestine!”Haven’t seen a woman with pol face before
I personally hate how many restaurants have some kind of pompous pretentious “send a message” wallpaper, especially if the message is some hustlegrind Secular Calvinist shit about how the owner of the franchise works that hard with no excuses.
Secular Calvinist
Thank you for this term
I think that term was originally used by the Nazis in reference to elect races
there are techbros using it now to mean eugenics as well which is pretty fucked. Californians what can you do
Lmao wtf
The scariest of those creeps, especially the breeding fetishist eugenics enjoyers, use it themselves.
For someone that has an entire podcast series on children and trauma from the neuro scientific standpoint, Balik have really boinked it all up
Wait this isnt just some rando?
You’re looking at one of the recurring cast members of what was, during its 12 season run, America’s most-watched comedy: The Big Bang Theory!
Like I needed another reason to hate that show
I hated Seinfeld before I knew he was a kiddie creeper.
I also hated TBBT before I read your post. :AgonyCassandra:
Z-list celebs are just some rando, don’t let them fool you
in addition to like the worst comedy, she also hosts jeopardy
It’s perfectly consistent when you remember, she doesn’t think Palestinians are people.
A normal person who knew anything about childhood trauma, would know that subjecting hundreds of thousands of children to this kind of displacement and bombardment, that keeping them out of school for over a month, and killing people around them, is traumatic AF. As it stands, practically every child in the Gaza strip has PTSD that would make The most battle experienced, mentally broken Western veteran off themselves. A Vietnam veteran, haunted by waking nightmares, experiencing flashbacks, who pisses themselves whenever a car backfires, has seen an eighth of what the average 4-year-old in Gaza has seen.
But, this colonizing monster doesn’t think they’re really people.
A normal person who knew anything about childhood trauma, would know that subjecting hundreds of thousands of children to this kind of displacement and bombardment, that keeping them out of school for over a month, and killing people around them, is traumatic AF
and someone who had never even heard the word trauma could make a reasonable guess
I mean… She has a doctorate of philosophy in neuroscience. It’s one of the liberal arts degrees that in my opinion likes to drape itself in the robes of hard science.
In my experience people with this schooling are overconfident in their personal theory of the mind. When a MD would likely say this could possibly be a component of your ailment, a PHD would be more likely to claim it’s the cause of all problems in neuroscience.
Isn’t she also an anti-vaccine lunatic?
Browsing a handful of her recent posts it wouldn’t be surprising, at all. Politically, she seems to be quite the model lib. The very next post after OP’s was even a hate symbol and glorification of terrorism:
I don’t think so? Besides playing a scientist on TV, she’s a PhD and she has a reputation of being pro-Science
That doesn’t mean much.
When reached for comment on the ongoing Israeli led genocide, former co-star Joey Lawrence was quoted: “whoa”
Does she think that a country founded in 1948 invented falafel? Or is she just smugly co-opting it to own the Browns?
Inreresting, I used to think they were Lebanese since most places that have them where I live are.
They’re that too. The Levant includes Lebanon, occupied Palestine, Jordan, and Syria
reminds me of Amy Schumer talking about “her people [Israelis]”. like you’re from NY, wtf are you talking about.
Well, lots of settlers are whites from New York, so she’s not completely wrong.
