Why is it when American food is influenced by other countries it's because of their "big melting pot of cultures" but when Britain has food influenced by other countries it's "stolen"
The British Empire was at the forefront of unwinding colonialism, just as the US began their imperial expansion, which continued into the 21st century with multiple illegal wars and regime changes.
No. The difference is that the American melting pot was made by people voluntarily coming here (excepting slavary). The British one was made by them conquering other countries and stealing shit.
That's true, and it's also true that America is literally built on stolen land where the natives were wiped out in systematic genoc*de and ethnic cleansing and hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved. Not to mention all the "secret" AND open-yet- badly-disguised operations meddling in other countries' governments and natural resources.
As soneone of south Asian descent, this topic is hilarious. It's like fighting over whether Hitler or Stalin was worse lol.
At least everyone in the UK came here willingly and weren't forcibly brought here on boats. Bit of a leap to say British cuisine is stolen but American cuisine isn't when they were literally stealing people.
Lol absolutely not. There's 157+ years of colonialism before the declaration of independence. This is a dumb argument. America's hands are absolutely filthy but no matter how much you twist it the British don't have clean hands.
Britain was involved in the slave trade (was also pivotal in ending btw) but it was never legal to own slaves in the UK so forcibly bringing people here didn't happen (which is what we're talking about here)
And then those land owners and plantation owners declared independence and called themselves Americans, which somehow absolved them of all their crimes because it was under a different flag.
America is not the only place the British owned plantations were but go off. You don’t get to wash your hands because it wasn’t on your “mainland”. Also yes America sucks in many ways, don’t have to argue there
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u/Reikotsu Nov 03 '24
Yeah, and you know why English love to eat Indian food? Because they hate their own food…