What is a culture vulture? I was called a culture vulture because I like to make and eat food from other cultures. Why is this a bad thing?

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It’s not a bad thing. The person who called you that is likely racist and frames every interaction they have through identity.

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There is no such thing as cuisine which is truly native to one culture. so tomatoes started in one place and were traded all over to impact the cuisines far and wide. Tomatoes are South American. Brought to India by trade. And integrated into Indian cuisine using South American cooking techniques. Is that culture vulturing? I assume you’re the one who made those corn cookies which looked freaking delicious. Ignore the haters. Keep trying other culture cuisines and enjoy and share the hell out of them

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Tomatoes aren’t a cuisine. What you do with the tomatoes is often native to one culture

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Some people have a hard time identifying the difference between appropriating others’ cultures and enjoying/celebrating others’ cultures.

It’s a them thing, not a you thing.

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only a culture vulture if you make food from others culture unauthentically and then turn around and try to sell a cookbook with those recipes in it

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That’s someone who has never travelled outside their state. Or whose idea of going overseas is going on a carnival cruise to the Bahamas.

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My ideal week would be seven dinners from seven different cultures sooooo, yeah, they can piss right off I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Soo…are you white and making jerk chicken on your stovetop with mainstream jerk-labeled seasoning and saying “voila…here’s your authentic Jamaican cuisine”??? Or, boiling up some noodles, adding some lightly seasoned beef (maybe an egg), leaving a little water in it and calling it ramen like you’d find authentically somewhere else?? Feel like we need more here. You can totally be a culture vulture or you may not be, all of it is about context which this lacks.

It’s the difference between Eminem and Iggy Azalea. Which one are you?

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D2 is clearly fun at parties

That is a term that someone having a bad day uses.

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Foodie is more appropriate.

A culture vulture is a person who adopts something from a different community and makes it their own. I, as a White person living in the United States, enjoy some of the things that the African-American community has given to this country. Rap music, for example, originated in the Black community.

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Nope, from Google. Keeping it PC

@OP I’ve followed this bowl since you started and I also follow you on Instagram. If this person formulated their opinions of you based on these, I have to disagree. You aren’t appropriating. You’re celebrating food in a heartfelt and thoughtful way.

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“Every Grain of Rice - Simple Chinese Home Cooking” was written by a white woman (Fuschia Dunlop) & earned a James Beard award. It is authentic Chinese food - highly recommend this cookbook. For me one of the best ways to appreciate diversity & different cultures is cooking food from other countries.

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Have a sneaking feeling that’s not all that happened if someone called you a culture vulture. The term refers to someone who dips into cultures that aren’t theirs and exploits or cherry picks practices to use for their own benefit without actually appreciating or giving credit to the people from whom the practices came

When cooks make “Asian” food while simultaneously lambasting Asian staples like MSG, or claim to make improvements to ethnic food by taking out certain “gross” ingredients, that is culture vulturing

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