On: Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)

[dcow]

“Ethnic food” is really what bugs me. WTF does that mean? Explain the cuisine please, I’m a foodie!

[hedora → dcow]

“Look in the ethnic foods isle for your matzo, dried seaweed, ghee and El Yuacteco.”

It’s basically the isle that could be labeled “packaged food for foodies”

[rectang → hedora]

This sort of imprecise, reductive othering illustrates what's problematic about the "ethnic foods" aisle (and "ethnic tensions").

[dcow → hedora]

Yeah I’d rather that stuff show up where it normally would. It’s just lazy to shove it all in an “ethnic” aisle.