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Are Food Preferences Genetic?
In article >,
wrote:
> 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.
I know that was absolutely true for me. I grew up as an Arab
American in Eugene, Oregon. I looked different, my mom spoke with an
accent, she didn't let me do all of the things my friends did, we ate
different food. All I wanted in the whole world was to be normal and
like everyone else. As I got older, I started to get over most of that.
My friends loved my mom's food, but I wanted to eat cheeseburgers and
pizza.
I've had a little bit of that angst come up again now that we have a
daughter. Rich wanted her to look like me, but I wasn't so sure. I was
the kind of girl that everyone's parents thought was attractive, but the
kids in school didn't agree. As an adult it was different, because I
was exotic, but exotic isn't in when you're an adolescent. Amira looks
a lot like me, and I remembered how hard it was looking so different
from everyone at the ages when appearance meant so much. Her hairline
is like mine, her face shape, coloring, hair, all of it, and I don't
want her to grow up thinking she is ugly because she doesn't look
Norwegian.
Regards,
Ranee
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