In an age where debating any culture without being labelled racist is like trampling on eggshells, it seems dissing “white” culture is still fair game. As someone of European descent, I’m ready to tackle the task and see if it’s really as bad as they say.
Now we could delve into culture as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary which says it’s all about the unique features of everyday life shared by folks in a specific place or era—you know, the daily grind, quirks, and lifestyle choices that make a group tick. If we zoom in and also look at what is white, we see that Caucasians, by the dictionary’s standards, are a bunch with European roots. But we’re not diving into a thesis here—we’re on an article journey.
So let’s really narrow our focus to the one thing we all care about and that is food. ‘Lunch of Suffering’. “White people’s food,” was been trending in the latter part of 2023 in China. And it’s not good. And here’s a deep dive into the psyche: Mr. Wei says “For burned-out urban professionals, the removal of pleasure from a work lunch” symbolizes how they merely “eat to work.”
To cut the white food movement some slack, there’s a little history lesson to chew on. The poor food reputation has a backstory. Blame it on the fact that Britain wasn’t really rocking a home-cooking vibe back in the day.
While food trends will bring a whirlwind of flavours in 2024, surprise surprise, they’re not all white—thank goodness! But to revert to the million-dollar question: Is white culture on the trash heap? If we are purely looking at food as our gauge, when we navigate the cosmic menu of existence, perhaps we should just do a U-turn and collectively ponder the age-old question of, “Do you want fries with that?”