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Now! Homogenized for better flavor! Ad for Durkee Foods’ margarine - 1955.
How and why capitalism homogenizes everything, Part One: radio.
Harmful Vietnamese Stereotypes
strawbebebby asked:
What are some harmful stereotypes to avoid when writing Vietnamese characters?
Two specifics are Vietnamese names as a whole (see our Hai Chen post with additions from Vietnamese readers) + “Asia is just China/Japan/Korea”. Nothing specifically about Vietnamese people comes to mind, but input from our Vietnamese community would be great.
Also not necessarily a stereotype about Vietnamese culture, but the mish-mash of Southeast Asia into one monolith in a lot of Western media definitely pertains to Vietnamese representation that I’ve seen! That’s one thing that’s been bugging me with cough a certain animated film released this year cough.
~ Mod Em
Vietnamese followers, feel free to chime in.
Futility. Futility shapes the world. History is a story of futilities, progress is a sequence of futilities. “Development!” says the futurist. “Loss,” says the rebel. “Hangover!” shouts the moralist from the back row. “Failure,” says the angry rebel. “Time is grey,” he says. The Creator’s failure is an introduction to the era. Kras Mazov shoots himself in the head and Abadanaiz takes poison with Dobrev on the Ozonne islands. The wind blows sand over their bones under the palm trees. Who was supposed to know? Good people from all over the world came together. Teachers, writers, and migrant workers huddle in trenches... young soldiers desert their units. What beautiful songs they sing! Brave children are history’s favourites, so it seems to them, and they wave white flags with silver horned crowns.
And they lose.
Coups are crushed. Anarchists are piled into mass graves on the Great Blue. Communists, beaten back from the isola of Graad, retreat to Samara and become a degenerate worker’s state ruled by bureaucrats. The disappearance of revolutionary lovers is resolved thirty-five years later when the hugging skeletons of Abadanaiz and Dobrev are found on the shore of an unnamed Ozonne island by Riche LePomme’s eight-year-old son Eugene during a Saturday evening outing. Wearing shorts and a butterfly net, he stands and looks perplexedly at the bones of his past as they cling together. Faded and smooth. Where does one begin and the other end? Time has mixed them up like a deck of cards. Afterwards, Riche erects a hotel there along with a now world-famous health centre.
But the greatest failure is not how Mazov’s global revolution ended in bloodshed and then defeat, nor is it how the bones of revolutionary lovers are now displayed in an aromatherapy waiting room. With internal unrest suppressed, Graad becomes a world power, a giant nation, its cities thriving and the light of this growth shining like a sparkling network from orbit. Whole nations disappear from the map of the world. Nations where Mazov once had many supporters. Nations like Zsiemsk. Nations whose peoples are derogatorily referred to as “kojkos”. And this goes on for so long that eventually they even begin to call themselves that.
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when partition happened, a lot of women were dragged, raped, violated, killed. those who survived, out of sheer survival strategies, they started having a family with their rapists/abusers. after a certain amount of time, the governments of india and pakistan, both decided to swap the woman back to their previous households as if they're some kind of objects which can be flung over the fence depending upon the individual mood. as usual nobody asked for their opinion regarding this. going back to the previous household meant facing the trauma of slutshaming even after enduring rape and the abuse that followed. nobody knew what happened to the children born out of those violations. both the governments decided to identify the children according to their father's whereabouts. even if the child was a month or a day old, the women had to leave them back in the country where the child was initially born, because bringing the child with the woman meant the women being constantly reminded of her violation - that the rival community got her 'body' and the child will never be accepted in the society.
Pasteurized, Homogenized Milk: It’s Weird
When you go to the grocery store for milk, what does it look like? White, consistent thin-ish liquid, right? That’s weird. Like really, really weird to everyone except Nile. The way most Americans buy milk (as pasteurized and homogenized) didn’t really start becoming a thing until the 1930s.
[ID: picture of fresh or “raw” milk in a jar with a note that reads “the cream line” and points to the cream separating from the milk.]
Pasteurization, the process of heating liquids to kill bacteria in it and extend shelf life, didn’t become a part of western knowledge until the 1860s with the work of Louis Pasteur. Of course, one should note that heating wine to preserve it has been used and known in China since 1117 CE and Japan some time in between 1478 and 1618 CE. Homogenization, the processing of dispersing the cream into milk evenly, came after pasteurization. The first machine for it was patented in 1899 by Auguste Gaulin (source), but G. Malcom Trout in 1929 helped pave the way for modern milk processing. Fun fact: we’re living through a time where a new pasteurization technique is gaining traction and may try to replace traditional methods (compared here).
According to Wikipedia, they describe the main differences between processed and unhomogenized milk as that “Homogenized milk tastes blander but feels creamier in the mouth than unhomogenized. It is whiter and more resistant to developing off flavors.” As someone who grew up at least partially on a dairy farm drinking milk sometimes still warm from the cow who produced it, let me tell you that this is an understatement. Milk from the grocery store doesn’t smell like, taste like, or feel like “raw” milk. It’s like comparing lemon juice and lemonade.
Unprocessed milk (which is to say: hopefully at least strained to make sure there’s no dirt or hair in it) doesn’t last nearly as long as processed milk; it can start going rancid in as little as two days depending on the situation. Rancid milk doesn’t just taste bad, it’s also a notorious vector for diseases. For the Old Guard, milk is probably a major no-go unless they pulled it from the utters themselves. Trust me: you only need a mouthful of separating, rancid milk once before you get real cautious around the stuff. And the stuff in the grocery store? Not milk.
Infinite homogenization mirrors infinite heterogenization.
Ahmed Salman
