Words of Wisdom from Yolanda

Update: I missed something really important in this post, so following Yolanda's example - I'm editing it to highlight my own ideological blindness. I know this post is really popular, and I don't mean to start a 'meme' but if you repost it - maybe you'd like to highlight your own weaknesses too?

Words of Wisdom from Yolanda (straight out copying):

In light of recent assertions and statements that I’ve encountered on comment threads, message boards, and in private conversations, I thought I’d just take a moment to relate the following observations:

- You can be a good, decent, loving, caring person and be a white male supremacist.
- You can be a hard-working, dedicated, self-sacrificing person and still have unearned privilege. [ME]
- White male supremacy is a system of power, not a moral failing or an individual flaw.
- Having a spouse of color and/or children of color does not make a person antiracist.
- Working with, helping out, donating money to, or otherwise providing resources and services to people of color does not make a person antiracist. [ME]
- Being a fan of, an expert on, or a scholar of Native American literature, Eastern religions, manga, Afro-Asian languages, jazz, reggae, anime, Bollywood cinema, hip-hop, or national liberation movements does not make a person antiracist. [ME]
- Being a woman, lesbian, gay, transgendered, or poor DOES NOT negate one’s white and/or male privilege.
- Even if most men are not rapists, 99% of rapes are committed by biological men. This is a political reality.
- All human beings are equal. Men and women are not equal.
- All human beings are equal. White people and people of color are not equal.
- All human beings are equal. The rich and the poor are not equal.
- One does not need to be a white person to be a white supremacist.
- One does not need to be a man to be a misogynist.
- One can be both antiracist and white supremacist [ME].
- One can be both feminist and misogynist [ME]
- Critique of privileged and/or oppressive behavior is not a personal attack. [yeps, I fallen into that a few times]
- Resistance to oppressive bevavior is not a personal attack. [this one too]

And most important:

No matter how long you have lived, what you’ve experienced, what work you have done, you will never outgrow the need to change. [yes, yes, yes]

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Brief notes on food and authenticity - the marketer's perspective

Someone typed the following into google to get to my blog... and I realize I've done it all backassed. Anyone really wanting to break something down - really ought to just get with the current corporate outlook by picking up a marketing journal - like the following: Journal of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing:
The International Forum for Research, Theory, and Practice

Changing Times Consumers Choice of Ethnic Foods When Eating at Restaurants

Page Range: 5 - 32
DOI: 10.1300/J150v14n04_02
Copyright Year: 2006

Contributors: Mary G. Roseman PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Hospitality Management and Tourism Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, mrose2@uky.edu

Abstract:

This study explores consumers' reasons for choosing ethnic food when eating at restaurants based on ten ethnic food types. Frequency for eating out was highest among those very likely or somewhat likely to eat Mexican, Italian, American or “other” ethnic food. Demographic characteristics most significant in relation to likelihood to eat ethnic food were race, education, and place of residency. A consumer profile for each of the ten ethnic foods based on demographic characteristics is presented. Of the six reasons for choosing ethnic food, “food different from what I have at home” was stated most often, followed by “like food of a different ethnicity/culture than me” and “food with a variety of different tastes.” These findings have implications in the development of marketing strategies and restaurant menus using ethnic foods.

(and I'm left scratching my ass as to why it is that marketers are always ahead of the people in my current 'occupation'... I should know better - I was one of them at one point!).

Expect a part 2 of 'food and authenticity' at some point in the future - after I read the market report info... I wouldn't be surprised if we realize that it's already all there. It really is all similar to 'tourism'...

leftist looney lunchbox: force 'feeding' white patriarchal supremacy, one tandoori flavoured dorito's chip at a time