{"id":4723,"date":"2008-12-02T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2010-11-25T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T10:25:26","slug":"race-and-culture-as-defining-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/02\/race-and-culture-as-defining-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"Race and Culture as Defining Characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kona Grill<\/a> specializes in “imaginative meals.”\u00a0 In their ad campaign (discovered here<\/a>), they sexualize their mixing of usually segregated culinary traditions (“East meets West”).\u00a0 Here\u00a0they put a fork and chopsticks in bed together:<\/p>\n

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Their food, apparently, is like interracial sex.\u00a0 This is interesting in itself, but the copy goes further.\u00a0 It reads:<\/p>\n

A restuarant.\u00a0 A bar.\u00a0 A place where opposites attract.\u00a0 Visit konagrill.com for a little taste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So not only are East and West (or Asians and Americans) different, they’re “opposites.”\u00a0 Such advertising not only fetishizes interracial relationships, but it reinforces the idea that race and culture are such powerful and defining characteristics that people from the East and the West could not possibly have anything in common (except sex, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kona Grill specializes in “imaginative meals.”\u00a0 In their ad campaign (discovered here), they sexualize their mixing of usually segregated culinary traditions (“East meets West”).\u00a0 Here\u00a0they put a fork and chopsticks in bed together: Their food, apparently, is like interracial sex.\u00a0 This is interesting in itself, but the copy goes further.\u00a0 It reads: A restuarant.\u00a0 A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,285,1759,1757,120,293],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-sex","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29983,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/29983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}