Although to be fair, it still gets a bit difficult for some. Not a lot of people can get over the appearance and smell of Indian food even though it is so freaking tasty (which makes me wonder how the hell kimchi even got off the ground).
100 years ago, you would've been saying "Not a lot of people can get over the appearance and smell of Italian food" (or "German food" or "Chop suey" or pickles - the last of which mirrors the over-the-top complaints you sometimes hear about children eating saladitos in places with recent Hispanic immigration). The nascent social worker movement actually taught lessons in "American" cooking and judged families on whether or not they used garlic.
"Their food is so smelly" isn't really bounded in fact. Indian food isn't objectively smellier than any other immigrant cuisine. It's racism.
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Date: 2017-06-26 04:27 pm (UTC)100 years ago, you would've been saying "Not a lot of people can get over the appearance and smell of Italian food" (or "German food" or "Chop suey" or pickles - the last of which mirrors the over-the-top complaints you sometimes hear about children eating saladitos in places with recent Hispanic immigration). The nascent social worker movement actually taught lessons in "American" cooking and judged families on whether or not they used garlic.
"Their food is so smelly" isn't really bounded in fact. Indian food isn't objectively smellier than any other immigrant cuisine. It's racism.