Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
> "Alex Rast" > wrote in message
>
> > Older people are less
> > easily swayed by social considerations because by a certain age people
> > establish their social identity by and large and without a conscious
> >effort to change it usually don't change all that much.
>
> Agreed. But you don't see the kids clamoring for some of their foods of
> national origin.
> Ed



True, but for many of us when we get older those foods
of national origin become comfort foods. Don't we often
see requests here for recipes "like my grandma used to make"?

When we are younger, symbols of ethnicity are often embarrassing,
when we are trying hard to "fit in". Luckily, most of us outgrow
that shallowness.

gloria p