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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 8033694" data-attributes="member: 59554">no.okay it sounds like they shot themselves in the foot by describing rice as the most important food in Kara-Tur that is eaten with virtually every meal.both of you missed the tone of the writing here. first of all, unpacking a greeting to describe the importance of rice? even a kindergartner can tell you "hello" in Mandarin in "ni hao". this is conflated by the fact that in some languages "rice" a word used colloquially to mean all food, even if you don't eat rice. this is a greeting someone might use in China, but just like anywhere there's a variety of greetings they use. but about tone, let's imagine if we wrote about English greetings that way:[EXCERPT]In America and Canada, people do not greet each other with the friendly "Ni hao!" of the East, instead saying "Good morning!" or "Good evening!" depending on the time of day. The intention is the same, but the importance of the time of day in daily life is clear.[/EXCERPT]seriously, the way that paragraph is written makes it sound like Americans never heard of rice before. or that it has a multitude of uses.[EXCERPT]Rice is used in a multitude of ways. It is boiled and served with butter. It is puffed, sweetened and prepared by pouring over it with milk. It is cooked in a broth and served in a side dish. Left over rice is mixed with vegetables in a dish called stir fried rice, that's similar to the kind you may be familiar with because Chinese people have been living in America and Canada for nigh over a goddamn century.[/EXCERPT]also I'm tired of doing the heavy lifting as the only Asian person in this echo chamber.here's a twitter thread by a Malaysian journalist (in Kuala Lumpur) talking about the way durians are discussed in western journalism. this sort of writing about Asian food still happens and isn't just an issue that's gotten better since 1985.[MEDIA=twitter]1276088736296472577[/MEDIA]or the more humorous take that I tried to crib.[MEDIA=twitter]1275990670663012352[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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