None
6507
I grew up eating kecap manis in my mee goreng and nasi goreng so imagine my surprise when I moved to America and had tomato ketchup for the first time.
Mee goreng and nasi goreng, I havenât had those for years! Personally I prefer those without ketchup or kecap manis at all. Itâs like chinese carrot cake - I like savoury and not sweet.
Matt_W
6509
Charles Mannâs 1493 has a whole fascinating chapter about the potato. (Actually every chapter in that book is fascinating.)
Until you have lived in the Andes, you have no idea about potatoes. The array of varieties available in the markets here is, well, bewildering.
None
6511
Yes, me too. I use fish sauce and sambal in my cha tow kway.
Not what I expected when clicking on âPT Cruiserâ in Twitter trending topics.
Nesrie
6513
The worldâs food supply and flavor profiles would be exceedingly bland, boring and potentially extinct if it had to rely on one small part of the world as the only true origin. I donât know why they should stop at food though. I say have the white supremacy limit themselves by removing anything that ever came from someone who was not white and also nothing women created. I look forward to what they come up with.
Um⌠(wracks brain)⌠butt stuff? (definitely off-color NSFW thought blurred for safety)
Nesrie
6515
I blame our education system. When you remove minorities and women from⌠everything and try and cover just random things in one month, you wind up with a bunch of racist idiots who think they are the only ones who have contributed to anything.
ZeTh1
6516
I donât think itâs the education system. Some people are just wired to hate and they represent 10-15% in most countries in the West. The difference between the US and, say, Scandinavia, is that they are empowered by Trump/the GOP through direct (stand by) or indirect support (budget cuts, pressure on the FBI to focus on imaginary terror threats such as Antifa, etc.).
Education is absolutely a factor. Where are kids/young adults exposed to ideas outside their homogenous local community? College or the equivalent.
Otherwise the high school teacher, preacher, neighbor, girlfriendâs parents and the local village idiot are all saying the same thing.
Nesrie
6519
Oh it absolutely is.
No one is inherently wired to hate. They learn this. And itâs too easy to learn when you allow entire school systems to pick and choose to only highlight the parts of history they are comfortable with, that fit their current ideology and makes their team look good. There are literally young men in this country, and others, who are never taught that minorities or women contribute to anything we have today. And in this country, too many of them are actually even able to ignore one month of lessons every year which are the weak ass not at all comprehensive approach to Black History which is boiled down to the nonsensical idea that one man created a peaceful marches, gave a speech and solved racism. Itâs ludicrous and false and so meager it can be easily thrown out if the household, communities and religious groups that child returns to just dismiss even that pathetic attempt.
Also schools are effectively segregating again where I live (and many more parts of the country). About half of the public schools switched to being magnet and IB and specialty schools, and there is a voucher program and special enrollment periods where you have to sign up. Ostensibly it was because lower income communities could have access to the âgoodâ schools, but effectively what happens is the uninterested and overworked parents donât bother signing up and all those kids which had been split 50/50 in two community schools with the kids with interested/rich parents are now concentrated into one. So for instance, in my community there were two public schools, now ones an IB. The normal public school is 59% Black, 22% Hispanic. The IB school is 37.5% Black, 15% Hispanic. 90% free and reduced lunch at the former and 56% at the latter. In addition in a lot of schools they have different classes and teachers for kids based on how they are doing academically and how they enrolled (based on need or based on the lottery).
Iâm not saying either school is not diverse, but they are definitely âsortingâ to a large extent.
One of the cool things I saw when we moved our kids to Canada was the BC approach to magnet schools. They put the desirable programs in their low income neighborhood schools. This meant that rich parents who wanted those programs put their kids in the struggling schools and would immediately work/fund raise to make the school better. The system works to prevent marginalizing the kids whose parents donât have time/opportunity to get them into those programs.
ZeTh1
6522
Yea wired is not the right word there as it implies biological conditioning. The source of racism is embedded deep within our cultures and I think it goes way beyond education because the problem persists even in coutries that do much more than the US does to fight it.
Just another KKK Republican running for officeâŚ
Maybe he was just wearing a sheet to be a ghost?
Casper the Friendly Grand Wizard?
