On Jan 11, 2008 6:50 PM, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The U.S. is different from India. In the U.S., Vermont is different
> from Georgia. Manhattan is different from Queens. The East Village is
> different from Harlem; Maspeth is different from Flushing. Really,
> where is this homogenization going on?
>
It is relative: India is *less different* from the US than it was even
10 years ago. Significantly so. Obviously there are natural limits to
the process - Indian diets, for instance, will never be the exact same
as US diets but it can become far more similar than it is today.
Kellogs for one is trying very hard to do exactly that ("a bowl of
Kellogs cereal on every Indian breakfast table").
This is dangerous not merely because of the possible loss of an ethnic cuisine.
-raghu.
