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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chocolate chip cookies is fine!! I don't know why your school has a fit about it. I'm a first generation immigrant and I try hard to find foods that I enjoy that would appeal to a wide palate. [/quote]

OP here- I hope I don't seem like I'm against any sort of ethnic food. I'm not. I LOVE ethnic food actually and go out of my way to cook it and order it. It's just that none of it is from my ancestors or my ethnicity.[/quote]

Isn't all food "ethnic" to one extent or another?  It's just a question if it's from you own ethnicity or someone else's, no?[/quote]

Yes. Exactly. White American is an ethnicity, and insisting it's not is just perpetuating the idea that white Americans are the only "regular," unremarkable ones and everyone else is "different." Like, I'm sure you can see the problem with telling an immigrant kid that her parents' food is "ethnic food" and OP's kid's lunch is "normal food." It's the *exact* same problem if you tell OP not to bring what her family eats. [/quote]

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