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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't have another culture, what are you bringing to the school multicultural potluck? Just a regular side dish? I tried to sign up for chocolate chip cookies and the organizers told me it should be a traditional food from my household.

I'm really trying here, but these events come up multiple times a year and there doesn't seem room for people who don't have other cultures. I mean we're mostly [b]British and German b[/b]ut it's been a couple hundred years and we have no ties to any of that food. I don't even feel like we have regional foods from the US that my family regularly eats (they did not want regional US foods though). I sort of felt like chocolate chip cookies were one of my family's specialties. If we don't have one, should we just pick someone else's culture and make a dish? [/quote]

I'm from Germany.  Would you like me to link some fairly easy recipes for you that are authentic and often used?  :) [/quote]

OP here- no that seems fake and inauthentic to me. Why is there so much emphasis on multiculturalism in schools? I don't really see this anywhere else and it just seems divisive. Only in America is American culture not a culture. I know Europeans definitely think we have American food and our own culture. [/quote]

That’s because migrants drag their culture with them and it takes awhile to assimilate.  My mother was raised in Canada, French Canadian and no one wants that gross Poutine.  Living rural by the ocean I know they used to hang a big fish on the back porch and rip off a slab of it for a snack.    Maybe I’d bring a raw fish.  [/quote]

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