I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

  • ipitco@lemmybefree.net
    85·
    6 hours ago

    Thanks India for the tutorials

    No thanks for the call centers and bad hygiene

    But in the end, it allows us to meme and joke on everyone, and that’s fantastic (south park mentality)

    • console.log(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      5 hours ago

      That makes me think the most exotic thing you ever ate is butter chicken and tikka massala.

      Like the call center thing seems to be a bad stereotype (most Indians I have experience with were all very capable). Bad hygiene is a thing though. I love flood from allover India, but I rather get it served by an immigrant in my country, compared to actually getting it served in India. And most Indian restaurants have very passionate chefs who want to share their culture (of place of origin, India is biiiig) and bring the flavor to other parts of the world. Like, I’ve had dozens of bad food from different countries locally, but Indian food is not on that list. Curry with passion and love as secret ingredients really is the best.

      We don’t have an Indian streetfood culture here though. You really need to go to a dedicated Indian restaurant.

      • ipitco@lemmybefree.net
        3·
        5 hours ago

        I actually never really ate indian food and planned on testing soon! I love the taste of curry though

        Like the call center thing seems to be a bad stereotype

        it’s obviously a stereotype, but call centers are often associated with them because a lot of scammers are indian because it’s a pretty poor country and they have infrastructure to handle this

        I love flood from allover India, but I rather get it served by an immigrant in my country, compared to actually getting it served in India

        I would as well, I prefer my country’s hygiene norms and laws haha (and afaik their government and institutions are corrupted, as for many other countries, so better not to finance that)

        I’ll stay away from bollywood though!