Re: Foods and Ethnic Identities
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 3, 2000, 3:42 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>> One particular Asian-American sub-culture has a long list of
>metaphors
>> built up on starches like "rice" and "potatoes." Consequently you have
>> "rice queens," "potato queens," "sticky rice," "mashed potatoes," among
>> others (I *know* some of you know what I'm talking about).
Well, i recently heard a white gay man on a message board call himself a
"Rice Queen", because he has a very strong affinity for Asian men. Another
set of somewhat derogatory terms are "rice rocket" (the cars of Asian guys
who take a normal Japanese import and try to make it look like a race car
(covered on this list before i believe) as well as "rice boy" which is the
term for the guys who do this to their cars.
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