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Chenese

05/28/2012, 20:10:01

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Even in terms of basic softpower like food and dining Japanese cuisine seems to be more positive.

Chinese food is associated with Take-out, stereotypical bad spelling and grammar, fortune cookies, hungry in 1 hour, eating weird animals, etc.

Japanse food is associated with sexiness, exotic charm, clean and healty, wealth, etc.

And yes I know this is not true, but I'm speaking in the terms of an average American.

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Japanese cuisine appeals to new Western fads, it has no market elsewhere in the - BBC 05-29 00:15 | 145 bytes | +1
- You forget that the Anglo-Saxon world dominates the world - -Corsair- 06-01 19:59 | 74 bytes |
OTOH most Americans probably eat Chinese food more often than Japanese - -Corsair- 05-28 23:59 | 51 bytes | +1
- Japanese cuisine is harder to accept for most cultures - BBC 05-29 00:12 | 241 bytes | +1
  - Cuisine was just 1 example. - Chenese 05-29 00:52 | 1806 bytes | +1
    - Chinese take-out is not the last resort - BBC 05-29 02:06 | 1127 bytes |