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Required length: 3-4 pages not including Works Cited
This assignment requires students to use the ideas from our readings to develop a research project on a specific issue related to ethnic restaurants and food in the U.S. Unlike Assignment #1, in which you evaluated someone else’s argument, your purpose in Assignment #2 is to devise your own argument about your chosen topic and support it, using both course readings and research sources. In your essay, you should formulate a clear and focused thesis and provide a detailed account of your evidence. Because of the limited required length of the assignment, you should use the most compelling points and evidence to support your argument and avoid superficial coverage of topics. In presenting your argument, you must cite directly a minimum of four (4) sources, two of which should be outside sources. Topics are listed below.
Topics:
1.Diasporas attempt to recreate their homeland cultures in their host countries, but what they recreate is not necessarily authentic. The lack of authenticity can be detected in some of the foods served in ethnic restaurants. In their article “The Presentation of Ethnic Authenticity: Chinese Food as a Social Accomplishment,” Shun Lu and Gary Alan Fine argue that food in ethnic restaurants in the U.S., particularly Chinese food, has to become more or less “inauthentic” because of “social, cultural, and economic constraints of the market” (540). In other words, they claim that ethnic foods need to be adapted to be marketable in a host country. Specifically, they discuss different eating habits and beliefs, as well as different tastes and cost efficiency, as reasons for transforming authentic ethnic dishes so that they are acceptable to American consumers. This modification takes various forms ranging from menu items and ingredients to spices, condiments, and cooking processes to serving styles and speed (Lu and Fine 540-43).
Write an essay in which you develop an argument about the lack of authenticity of ethnic foods in the U.S in light of the inauthenticity/adaptation of American fast food in its overseas branches (e.g., McDonald’s, KFC). To complete your essay successfully, consider some of the following questions: (1) Why do ethnic restaurants present food that is not considered authentic by actual natives of the culture? (2) Who are the major customers whom the restaurants serve? (3) What forms of alteration do they take (i.e., what do they change)? (4) Is it possible that ethnic foods can lose their ethnicities in their process of adaptation? (5) How can these be related to the adaptation of American fast food abroad?
Working thesis: Almost all the foods are not authenticity. Most of them are already adapted into American taste. And I agree with this.
Main point: dish will change the due to different culture, in order to match their taste.
(1) Why do ethnic restaurants present food that is not considered authentic by actual natives of the culture?
Most of the restaurant will change the ingredients of the original dish since the ingredient of the traditional might be hard to find or much more expensive to find in a foreign country. Still some of the restaurant will change the cooking process, in order to match the taste of the local customers.
(2) Who are the major customers whom the restaurants serve?
The major customers are going to be mostly the local residents, and probably some people who missed their traditional dish.
(3) What forms of alteration do they take (i.e., what do they change)?
There might be a change of the ingredient, a change of the cooking process, or a change of the way they serve the food
(4) Is it possible that ethnic foods can lose their ethnicities in their process of adaptation?
It is impossible that the ethic food completely lose their ethnicities in their process of adaptation, however it is possible that the food can be adapt into a food that is totally different from the traditional one, but the basic of the ethnic food will still last.
(5) How can these be related to the adaptation of American fast food abroad?
American fast food will change their menu due to different country and different religion, since there are limits for different religion. In order to fit in the needs. For example: changing the ingredient of beef into pork but sill can be a burger.
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