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When your cultural food becomes workplace entertainment

My coworkers always want to try my lunch and ask me to explain every ingredient and I feel like a cultural exhibit instead of just someone eating food.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being positioned as an exotic representative of otherness transforms intimate cultural practices into performance.

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