02/06/20:Chapter 2 Food/Culture

when we look at food it goes hand in hand with our culture depending on where we are the food that we might get served can be something is our “norm” or totally mind blowing. For example in America we eat hamburgers and bacon , those two foods are not mind blowing but rather a cultural norm to us . But when we look at other countries even the thought of us eating those sound absolutely disgusting and then we can look at other countries and look at what they eat and be the same way . This is ethnocentrism because we are judging other cultures off of our normal , for example in class grasshoppers is not a common cuisine out here therefore it is hard to find somewhere who actually sells that because there is barely a demand in this country. If we were to go to a different country that could be a total delight to many others . This can also lead to like cultural conflicts , for example I was watching this show called 90 day fiancé and the wife was from America but the husband was from the Dominican Republic and when she went to go visit him with her family his family served them chicken feet and they got terrified.Instead of trying to understand whether or not if that was a delight in that country then put a wall up and thought they were getting voodoo done on them because they had never ate or been served chicken feet. The husband goes onto explain how it was a delight food and traditional to the Dominican and that he describe the process behind and that would be Marxist perspective because he described what was behind the curtain and how it took to process the food and the amount of money she spent to try to make this as delight able for them as possible. This also happens plenty of times when the byproduct is coming from the killing of an animal because some people see it as astonishing how we kill a certain animal and eat it especially if in that culture that animal is sacred it is where both groups clash because they do not fully see eye to eye. I feel that we won’t see eye to eye because there is to much variety in the foods that we consume around the world and some don’t sit right just like our normal doesn’t sit right with everyone as well.