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Gastrodiplomacy
- What’s gastrodiplomacy ?
- Since 2002, gastrodiplomacy is a manner for some countries to use food in order to extend their cultural influence.
- Governments support restaurants everywhere in the world to make their nation become more popular.
- What do you think about promoting a country through gastrodiplomacy?
- I think it’s a smart way to promote a country.
- Eating is an essential need.
- Regarding the manner Thailand’s government is promoting its country, it seems to work.
- Thailand has become the most visited country in Southeast Asia.
- What’s your favorite foreign dish?
- My favorite foreign dish is kebab.
- Do you like the idea of the program connecting refugees and residents through food in neighborhoods?
- I like this idea because most of the time, the community judges refugees without knowing them.
- Sharing a national meal with local people could allow these latters to discuss, exchange, and interact.
- In short, each one could make acquaintance with one’s neighbor, and why not notice we are all human beings with our differences.
- It could inspire the public to get how it was difficult for these refugees to leave their country, family, habits, culture,...
- Thanks to all these dissimilarities we could open our mind and refugees could get more aware of local traditions and lifestyles.
- It could also be an opportunity for local inhabitants to diversify their own food.
- Is food culture an important element of your country’s identity?
- What’s the role of food?
- I think food is an important element of my country’s identity.
- First of all, food has a biological function.
- After, food plays a part in constructing the identity of our society.
- Food allows us to assemble, share, discuss,...
- But on this planet, people don’t have enough resources to eat properly every day or are dying of starvation.
- This is unfair.
- Moreover, it’s revolting to see people wasting food.
- Thank you very much for correcting my text.
- Have a nice weekend. Sylviane
- Sylviane346
November 2021
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