<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Burger King launches film <em>Whopper Virgins</em>, simplifies U.S. to land of fast food]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Whiskerfish http://www.grist.org/article/If-they-have-it-their-way-theyll-supersize-the-world/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:05:26 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/If-they-have-it-their-way-theyll-supersize-the-world/1 there is a creepy precedent for this

Rightwing Merican Christian missionaries have since the 1960s used remote burger-fryups to bring 'civilisation' and 'god' to remote Amerindian peoples.

It was standard procedure in the recent past (may still be, who knows) to have pictures of tribal people munching on burgers in church fundraising material with captions like "Bob, the tribe's medicine man, who's just abandoned his old name of Uma to mark his ascent into the Light of God and away from superstition, beginning his journey into Christian civilization by eating a burger"

As in 'here, see, the natives are eating like us, burger = white person = god, now give us more money to drive around in SUVs on permanent vacation in tropical countries pretending like we're good people' etc.

No, I am not joking.

This stuff makes me ill.

Whiskerfish

]]> there is a creepy precedent for this

Rightwing Merican Christian missionaries have since the 1960s used remote burger-fryups to bring 'civilisation' and 'god' to remote Amerindian peoples.

It was standard procedure in the recent past (may still be, who knows) to have pictures of tribal people munching on burgers in church fundraising material with captions like "Bob, the tribe's medicine man, who's just abandoned his old name of Uma to mark his ascent into the Light of God and away from superstition, beginning his journey into Christian civilization by eating a burger"

As in 'here, see, the natives are eating like us, burger = white person = god, now give us more money to drive around in SUVs on permanent vacation in tropical countries pretending like we're good people' etc.

No, I am not joking.

This stuff makes me ill.

Whiskerfish

]]> Comment #2 by Whiskerfish http://www.grist.org/article/If-they-have-it-their-way-theyll-supersize-the-world/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:08:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/If-they-have-it-their-way-theyll-supersize-the-world/2 BTW

I lived for a year in Taiwan recently.

It was amazing how many people thought they were treating me to a high-class meal by inviting me out to McDonalds. Since that's what Mericans eat, it must be good, right? And since you're a foreigner, you must hate the local food, right?

And Taiwanese Chinese traditional food is so damn tasty!

Whiskerfish

]]> BTW

I lived for a year in Taiwan recently.

It was amazing how many people thought they were treating me to a high-class meal by inviting me out to McDonalds. Since that's what Mericans eat, it must be good, right? And since you're a foreigner, you must hate the local food, right?

And Taiwanese Chinese traditional food is so damn tasty!

Whiskerfish

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