Maligning a culture via its foods is longtime American habit

I honestly don't know what this author is talking about. I love food from pretty much anywhere despite the different practices that may or may not go on in the home country.

The main takeaway of Trump’s debate with Kamala Harris is not the issue or not of whether Haitian immigrants are eating pets but the number of largely unskilled and uneducated immigrants forced upon a small community.

Why have 20,0000 non English speaking immigrants been allowed to settle in a town of 58,000 people?

It is not reasonable.

Aside from the pressure on the town’s infrastructure and resources, there is also the resultant decline in social cohesion.

Expecting a positive outcome is not likely…

The article is basically full of waffle.

“There’s a slur for every almost every ethnicity based on some kind of food that they eat,” says Amy Bentley, professor of nutrition and food Studies at New York University. “And so that’s a very good way of disparaging people.”

The difference is that the Haitian immigrants Trump was speaking about do not have a dog or cat eating culture.

The main takeaway of Trump’s debate with Kamala Harris is not the issue or not of whether Haitian immigrants are eating pets but the number of largely unskilled and uneducated immigrants forced upon a small community.

The main takeaway of the Trump debacle... er, debate... is that Trump thinks "they're eating the dogs".

This piece of garbage is qualified to run a country?

you must mean the city where the immigrants are filling the demand for entry level and blue collar jobs that the rest of the population don’t want or can’t fill for all the new logistics centers and manufacturing businesses contributing to the growth of the city.

ypu know, things like paying taxes, renting housing, supporting retail stores, etc.

President Donald Trump spotlighted a false online tempest around the Haitian immigrant community of Springfield, Ohio. He repeated the groundless claim previously spread by his running mate, JD Vance

MAGA claims never hold up to scrutiny.

In this case immigrants are so desperate in the US they are eating pets.

At the same time they are being given free gender reassignment surgery and health care, being put up in luxury hotels and taking all the government benefits.

It is just lazy thinking.

Why have 20,0000 non English speaking immigrants been allowed to settle in a town of 58,000 people?

In America, people legally here get to live wherever they like and can afford. Nobody shipped them there after the first few hundred who needed a place that would welcome them.

The local city and probably religious organizations helped get the first Haitians settled. For the most part, legal immigrants who work hard are welcome everywhere in America - provided they stay away from white supremacists. Everyone's family has an immigration story, so that binds us all together, even though they are all different.

We love legal immigrants. It is only those people who skipped the line and came in illegally that I have any issue with.

I worked in a small company that had about 50% Americans and 50% immigrants from the nearly everywhere else. At lunch, there were some, let's call it, interesting smells, coming from the company break room. Most of the time, the smells were really good, but there were a few dishes that just smelled terrible and I couldn't believe that someone would eat them.

I do feel bad when someone with an engineering degree from their home country finds that it doesn't translate to a US degree at all and they can't get employed in a job that will lead to being an engineer, so they become an extremely over-qualified tradesman, earning even more than most engineers earn here. Met an engineer from Liberia (Liberia is where former slaves from the US were returned to Africa) who was working as a plumber. He was a 1st generation immigrant, I suppose. The guy was brilliant - no idea if he was properly licensed or not, just that he charged a fair price for the work performed and it was done efficiently and well. It was normal replacement work, not anything major.

I saw one of the Haitian immigrants in Sprinfield being interviewed. A doctor. He said he understands how the people who are frustrated feel, but they alternative is going back and being murdered in Haiti. So they stay, even with right-wing conspiracy theories directed at them.

It's very funny to me (and utterly correct) that Americans find fault with any cuisine but their own. The land of the Whopper, KFC, and the dining elegance of America bliss, McDonalds, find Japanese, French, and, well, the rest of the world, don't have the good food the US has. Having lived in Japan and Paris, all I can say it that if an American had the best dish in the world it would then not be as good as Applebee's.

Has South Korea outlawed the eating of dogs?

Often see Americans bash the cuisine of my home country, doesn’t bother me at all

Freedman says. “It’s like the tourism fallacy that travel makes us more understanding of diversity.

Yeah it is easy to find that fallacy here every day.

Often see Americans bash the cuisine of my home country…

I wonder what the reason is?

The article is basically full of waffle.

Is that Belgian or American waffles?

Anyway, let me waffle on.

Here in Scotland, people are also very protective of our food culture. Forget the foreign food. We will stick to our traditions of Tika Masala, Haggis Pakora, and pies and bridies.

I saw one of the Haitian immigrants in Sprinfield being interviewed. A doctor.

Yes, they always interview one of the "good ones!. Not a street gang member.

Diversity and superdiversity are come to stay. World is moving faster than our simplistic and static minds deeply rooted in antiquity. Modern ways of simple living and high thinking are at our door steps. It's time to be gracious and proudly say Bon Appetite.

Back in 2016 Trump's people, behind the scenes, were attacking Hillary Clinton and other Democrats for stealing babies and using their blood for god only knows what purpose. The absurdity of the claims did not keep a Trump extremist from attacking a Clinton campaign storefront in New York City with an assault rifle.

For hundreds of years in Europe and Russia, Jews were accused of stealing babies and using their blood for religious rituals. The absurdity of the claims did not stop the pogroms.

Media continue to churn out more partisan material

Norm

Dunno, but it’s better than the crap they eat

Crispy Pork Belly a favourite, salad side, chilli dip. say no more...

Photo says it all.

Scotland?

My first trip abroad as a child the porridge I pasted on.

However the Cullen Skink, Neeps and Taties, Stovies, Cock-a-Leekie Soup  delicious.

The Locals stewing Nessie was unforgivable.

From what I have read and seen about USA food.......no thank you. The overwhelming majority of it is junk, over fatty foods, and if you need proof of this, look at the population of the place.

opheliajadefeldtToday 12:32 pm JST

From what I have read and seen about USA food.......no thank you. The overwhelming majority of it is junk, over fatty foods, and if you need proof of this, look at the population of the place.

If you can't handle tasty food, then yes, you should stay away.

This is not an American thing. Countries around the world insult each other with food-based jibes. The French for British "rosbif" (roast beef), the British for French "frog". The British for German "kraut". The German for Dutch "kaskop" (cheesehead). The list goes on...

Maligning a culture via its foods

No idea how many of the reports of dog, cat, public park animals etc. eating Haitians are true (although there are plenty of videos), but calling eating your neighbours pets a "food culture" is stretching things a bit.