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gcatalfamo ◴[] No.15292434[source]
I don't want to always sound critic of the USA, but if here in Italy you opened an activity with real or supposed insert your favourite heritage here style, no one would ever care.

You would get awful reviews if you weren't doing a good job of it, but aside from that, why would anyone really be offended?

If you guys were coherent, places like Olive Garden should never exist. And I am not even starting on how much of a shit job Olive Garden is doing of trying to look Italian, because I don't care.

Europe, with such a rich mix of cultures should be a trigger-hell for you Americans.

(I am being sarcastic) How can you really cope with all this?

Edit: to add insult to injury, how should we Italians feel about being always portrayed as "pizza, mafia, gobbledygook mamma mia". It's so far from our reality, we don't care.

Edit2: better phrasing

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1. S_A_P ◴[] No.15292498[source]
Rightly or wrongly, there are people here in the US that make it a hobby to become offended and make a big deal of how offensive it is. Obviously it would do everyone some good to use discernment with their actions, but everyone should also not try to look for how you can spin something that was probably tongue in cheek into something offensive. Is bodega a great idea? Probably not, but I don't know what the entire offering was, maybe the idea got funded because they were interested in a specific part of the whole idea. I would like to see people in the US realize that someone is going to do something they don't like and there is an option to ignore the behavior.
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2. TeMPOraL ◴[] No.15292524[source]
The problem is, unfortunately, becoming a world-wide phenomenon, because the entire media industry runs on generating outrage to capture the audience.
3. gcatalfamo ◴[] No.15292528[source]
That's my point. Critics of their business model do sound valid, but people that are shocked about so-called "cultural appropriation" should, trying to be polite here, see more of our wonderful planet and really understand cultures, which are very, very, very different from the cultures you believe to witness when changing neighborhood in your town.