[Jan Fisher]

An online row has erupted over an Australian making sushi in New York.

Australian Alex Marks left her corporate job to sell ‘Aussie’ sushi including food hall favourites, teriyaki chicken, spicy tuna, and avocado and cucumber.

Sounds harmless right? Well apparently this makes her a ‘coloniser’. Online comments have labelled it ‘quite scary’, and said they were ‘sick of the disrespect’.

Did I miss something? The Italian down the road from me is full of Indian and Asian cooks, yet we manage not to be offended.

In fact the very idea that the people cooking should match the restaurant’s ethnicity is just weird.

While we are on the topic, we have several Japanese restaurants near me, but only one is actually owned by Japanese people, all the rest are Chinese.

And no one cares. Would you care?

[Barbara Smith]

In several local “Thai” restaurants you are served by Phillipino staff.

[FrankC]

So long as the food is up to scratch and relative to the typer of restaurant, I don’t care who cooks it and who serves it. Ther above, “only in America” !

[KSS]

Yes but did you not know that it is only ‘white’ people that can ever be guilty of ‘cultural misappropriation’, colonisation (forget about the Spanish, French, various Middle Eastern and African tribes etc etc), ‘disrespect’ or ‘quite scary’?

[heyyybob]

Of course !! AAmerrycar – setting the standards in so many ways ?? Pass me another mag – lock ‘n load !! Riiiiiighhht 😉

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