Now, unfortunately in this instance, the perpetrator is from America. Another fine instance of why people don't like rude entitled Americans that think everyone should speak English and bow down to crypto-racist ideologies like Manifest Destiny (which runs through the American Environmentalist crowd).
So let's do a quick review here. I've included some other common countries in the Cultural Imperialist movement just to demonstrate that this trend is hardly restricted to the Land of the Free.
October 27 addition:
Convicted felon, Pete Bethune, provides another fine example, as he promotes a racist slogan of "Save a Whale, Harpoon a fat JAP". This is an interesting modification of another common racist slogan in the ANZAC lowlands, adding the word "fat". Amazingly, not only are they racist, but completely unaware of eating habits in their own country and Japan.[ /end addition]
Obesity Rates as per Nation Master
# 1 United States: 30.6%
# 2 Mexico: 24.2%
# 3 United Kingdom: 23%
# 4 Slovakia: 22.4%
# 5 Greece: 21.9%
# 6 Australia: 21.7%
# 7 New Zealand: 20.9%
# 8 Hungary: 18.8%
# 9 Luxembourg: 18.4%
# 10 Czech Republic: 14.8%
# 11 Canada: 14.3%
# 12 Spain: 13.1%
# 13 Ireland: 13%
# 14 Germany: 12.9%
= 15 Portugal: 12.8%
= 15 Finland: 12.8%
# 17 Iceland: 12.4%
# 18 Turkey: 12%
# 19 Belgium: 11.7%
# 20 Netherlands: 10%
# 21 Sweden: 9.7%
# 22 Denmark: 9.5%
# 23 France: 9.4%
# 24 Austria: 9.1%
# 25 Italy: 8.5%
# 26 Norway: 8.3%
# 27 Switzerland: 7.7%
= 28 Korea 3.2%
= 28 Japan: 3.2%
Meat Consumption Per Capita
#1 Denmark 145.9kg per person
#2 New Zealand 142.1kg per person
#5 USA 124.8kg per person
#8 Spain 118.6kg per person
#12 Canada 108.1kg per person
#13 Ireland 106.3kg per person
#14 France 101.1kg per person
#18 Argentina 97.6kg per person
#21 Austria 94.1kg per person
#22 Portugal 91.1kg per person
#24 Italy 90.4kg per person
#25 Netherlands 89.3kg per person
#30 Belgium 86.1kg per person
#33 Brazil 82.4kg per person
#34 Germany 82.1kg per person
#35 UK 79.6kg per person
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#85 Japan 43.9kg per person
The citizens in Leilani's country of America consume 2.84 times more meat than Japanese.
The rate of obesity in America is almost 10 times higher than Japan.
And she has the gall to criticize the eating habits of another culture? She should be taking notes and then a flight back home to confront people here about such issues.
And just for the icing on the cake...
Life Expectancy by Country
1 | Monaco | 89.73 | 2011 est. |
stick it to those yanks who think they rule the world.
ReplyDeleteFood culture?? Seriously, wow! I didnt know that Japabese food culture extended to Antarctic waters!
ReplyDeleteHalfay across the globe doesnt count as traditional food culture.
Minke whales live both in the Pacific and the Antarctic oceans.
ReplyDeleteYour knowledge of whales seems quite low for somebody who claims to care about them so much.