100% agree. The biggest overlooked benefit of immigrant culture is the mirror it offers us on our own practices and beliefs. When seeing what others do it gives us the chance to reaffirm that our actions are correct, or even more important, modify our actions for the better by adopting their view on something. We get to cherry pick the best parts of cultures around the world and discard bad practices that are perhaps "traditional" because we see our immigrants have a better approach. In the end of either we get the chance to be the best versions of ourselves with constant exposure to new ideas and ways of doing things.
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The only reason there is to love American culture is the blending of different immigrant cultures.
Just out of curiosity: what are pasteczki?
If they meant paszteciki, it looks like what the anglosphere knows as a sausage roll?
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You can have culinary trends without migrants. Like sushi, the best sushi IMO is still the authentic sushi. Its neat I can get it in my vicinity though.
Street food fusion is a whole other level though. With that you couldn't be more right. Craving late night street snacks now
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)
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.
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!