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tert in seattle

writes:
>On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 11:48:04 AM UTC-10, Jill McQuown wrote:
>
>>
>> dsi1 always tries to assign race to food preferences. Doesn't make any
>> sense to me.
>>
>> Jill
>
>There are many things in this world that you just don't get. There's no
>reason to brag about being ignorant.
>
>The idea that food preferences and race/culture/history are not related
>is a very odd notion to me. Why is it that Asians don't have a very long
>history of drinking milk or cheese production? Why is it that white
>folks tend to shy away from spicy foods? My guess is has to do with race
>and culture. Why are people afraid of this idea? Beats me.

You are preoccupied with race in the same way that residents of
Teamsterville (see Gerry Philipsen - Speaking culturally: explorations
in cultural communication [Albany : State University of New York Press,
©192]) are preoccupied with ethnic origin. This approach sees people
not as individual selves but as forms that fit a particular cultural
place. It is a way of ordering the world that is old world, in contrast
to the typical middle-class "Nacirema" culture that values the individual
as unique and not bound to cultural expectations simply by virtue of
their race or ethnicity.