Diversity Is When Food Nummy
We need Africans because I want Sushi
I wanted to shortly comment on recent events. In light of three English little girls being stabbed to death by a 17-year-old Rwandan immigrant (don’t worry, he was born in Cardiff, so he’s actually British), this otherwise conservative woman commentator felt the need to defend nummy foods and Latin dance in their place. Birbalsingh, who I presume is Anglo-Indian (I don’t care what she is, and I’m not looking it up), is currently the face of lib-coded rhetoric around. I wanted to dispense with this nonsense.
“Multiculturalism is when yummy food” is a real position people take. If you ask them what benefits of multiculturalism are, they’re going to say food and nothing else. Westerners don’t watch Bollywood films, they don’t listen to Desi music, they don’t watch cartoonishly bad Latin American dramas, usually for Hispanic abuelas still living in Mexico where every actor is suspiciously fairer-featured than everyone in their whole family. People can’t say “I love the food, the music, the culture” because they don’t engage in any of this. Salsa isn’t even popular; it hit its peak at the end of the 1990s because white boomer Americans approached an intensely Anglicised, sanitised form of Latin-American culture as introduced to them through the likes of Enrique Iglesias and other English-speaking Latin pop artists.
I don’t believe all leftists say this out of sincerity. It’s a knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of multiculturalism. They don’t put a lot of thought into it. The justification is usually related to how “bad” that “white people food” is. This follows the same thread of accusations that “white people can’t dance,” “white people can’t jump,” “white people can’t fight,” and “white people can’t fuck.” It’s another lib-coded tract to bash English-speaking white Americans over the head with, to justify demographic displacement by portraying them as boring, ugly, weird, or uncool. On some level, they probably know food isn’t worth human lives, but they have to reinforce their moral view or the whole thing collapses, and they have to admit fault for doing things and promoting ideas that are so destructive that people would want to unalive them. If they give up now, it’s over. It’s sunk cost fallacy.
For the rest who’re wholly sincere: it’s just straight up bullshit. Foreign restaurants serve you a Westernized version of their slop. Their bulk food suppliers are Western, the ingredients are Western-derived, but they sell it as ‘authentic’ when it isn’t. That crab rangoon you just spent $40 on Doordash was bulk bought at Costco during a last ditch grocery run. They’re selling you the experience. A sampling of the real thing, deliberately fitted to your people’s general dietary preferences. All of these “ethnic”, “exotic” restaurants do this. Everyone knows about “secret menus” at Chinese or Indian restaurants. Anybody who works in culinary, hell, anybody whose watched the UK version of Hell’s Kitchen where Gordan Ramsay tries to rescque failing restaurants owned by small business owners can tell you most of these people aren’t using fresh or original ingredients. You go to any ‘Japanese’ restaurant in North America, the staff are a random assortment of Asian, or sometimes Korean or Chinese, or maybe even Filipino but it doesn’t matter because they look Asian enough to boomers, correctly guessing people can’t tell the difference at a passing glance.
When people say “diversity is when nummy food,” they’re not talking about jollof. Most of the time, they’re talking about Chinese, Mexican, sushi, tikka masala, or donair. That is an affluent, liberal white person’s idea of “diverse food” that they can easily make at home. They’re not talking about the Islamic world or Africa. Yet, in defence of these foods, these are directly the specific migrants they’re defending who are invading their countries. They never point out what sushi has to do with letting in potentially thousands of clinically anti-social violent psychopaths who endanger themselves and others around them. They never put two and two together. Nobody is complaining about Japanese immigrants. The vast majority of people wouldn’t complain about Japanese immigrants because they would be an overwhelming net positive to any Western country. The same, generally goes for other East-Asians.
I’ll leave it with Pagliacci to end this here.
I’ve eaten sushi in Mexico. It was scrumptious, of course. There’s no Japanese mass migration to Mexico (if only), so I assume that Mexicans must know how to use YouTube.
A lot of the food cliché of multiculturalism rests on the preposterous idea of “authenticity,” which gets nowhere near the pushback that it deserves. Does the food taste good or doesn’t it? If it does, what do you care if it’s “authentic”? What does that even mean? Which grandma in the country of origin has the Platonically Correct Authentic Recipe? The answer is that people who tell you to frequent a restaurant because it’s “more authentic” are really just bragging that they can tell the difference, and this somehow makes them honorary POCs (if they’re white), and therefore better than you.
In Sweden, despite the huge influx of Somali refugees, we have exactly 1 Somali restaurant in the whole country. Marka Cadey Restaurang in Malmö. And good for them -- they have been in business since 2010, which counts as 'success' in the restaurant business. I'm all for successful small business. But if the benefit of immigration was supposed to be _yummy food_, I'd say that we have been short-changed on this deal.