A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions
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#2Not related to the article, so feel free to downvote.
I had to open this in Safari and "capture" it in reading mode before the page loaded fully to read the full article. Sort of anti-user.
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#3Parsis are amazing. Zoroaster! Incredible.
I can't believe how much cultural destruction occurs today -- simply through forces of homogenisation.
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#4Cannibalism?
"You two fight to the death and I'll cook the loser."
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#5Parsis are amazing. Zoroaster! Incredible. I can't believe how much cultural destruction occurs today -- simply through forces of homogenisation.
The idea that any culture is in and of itself worth preserving despite members of that culture not reproducing or passing that on morally questionable. It finds its greatest support today (in America at least) in the form of white supremacist groups responding to 'white genocide'. I'll pass, thanks. If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so. They'll join the ranks of thousands, if not millions, of respectable cultures that no longer exist today.
Oh well... thus is the nature of time and impermanence.
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#6Parsis are amazing. Zoroaster! Incredible. I can't believe how much cultural destruction occurs today -- simply through forces of homogenisation.
The value of novelty is purely emotionally driven, not economic. People love it, but they'll rarely pay for it.
Therefore, under capitalism, novelty is doomed.
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#7Parsis are amazing. Zoroaster! Incredible. I can't believe how much cultural destruction occurs today -- simply through forces of homogenisation.
The idea that any culture is in and of itself worth preserving despite members of that culture not reproducing or passing that on morally questionable. It finds its greatest support today (in America at least) in the form of white supremacist groups responding to 'white genocide'. I'll pass, thanks. If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so. They'll join the ranks of thousands, if…
To be completely fair, if the wholely imagined and ludicrous concept of white genocide was real, it would be something meriting the discussion they have about it.
The fact that whites have been so far above every other culture for so long that anything less than that feels to them like erasure and genocide is a testament to how coddled they are as a culture.
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#8Parsis are amazing. Zoroaster! Incredible. I can't believe how much cultural destruction occurs today -- simply through forces of homogenisation.
The idea that any culture is in and of itself worth preserving despite members of that culture not reproducing or passing that on morally questionable. It finds its greatest support today (in America at least) in the form of white supremacist groups responding to 'white genocide'. I'll pass, thanks. If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so. They'll join the ranks of thousands, if…
Hasn't white supremacy been a leading cause of cultural extinctions at least since the age of imperialism?
> If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so.
I don't feel I owe anything to this group, but we owe it to humanity to preserve a diversity of ways to be in and think about this world.
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#9>you must come on a Wednesday, and you must be invited. Only members and their guests are permitted to enter, and membership is granted only to Parsis.
I for one am not moved to preserve such an exclusionary cuisine. Crap like this is why creative commons, copyleft, and the GPL came into existence.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea that any culture is in and of itself worth preserving despite members of that culture not reproducing or passing that on morally questionable. It finds its greatest support today (in America at least) in the form of white supremacist groups responding to 'white genocide'. I'll pass, thanks. If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so. They'll join the ranks of thousands, if…
Hasn't white supremacy been a leading cause of cultural extinctions at least since the age of imperialism? > If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so. I don't feel I owe anything to this group, but we owe it to humanity to preserve a diversity of ways to be in and think about this world.
Yes and before that it was Mongolian supremacy and before that parsi supremacy. In other words, cultures die and new ones form. We do not owe it to the world to preserve existing diversity. Sure take down artificial barriers to societal continuity for those who want it. That's human rights not particular to any group of people. But diversity is not something to be preserved. That's a regressively conservative approach to diversity and stems from a lack of appreciation of the true source of diversity: having a shit ton of people