Jamie Oliver accused of cultural appropriation over rice recipe

I think this is ridiculous. British people make their own versions of a lot of foreign foods, like chicken tikka masala, which was created in Britain with Indian culinary influences. Jamie Oliver can use foreign influences in his cooking and acknowledge that in the name of the dish, that’s how new dishes are made and cultures are fused. This mp needs to stop wasting her time on this nonsense and focus on her constituents.

Don't forget the balti and chop suey, neither of which originate from where people think they do.

Load of nonsense. Absolutely nothing wrong with it whatsoever. If you don't like it don't buy it.

What a load of tosh. There's no such thing,

And phaal.

I was in Wales a while ago and had a "full Welsh breakfast". WTF is that?, I hear you ask. Well, I'll tell you. It was a full English breakfast with a dollop of weird stuff entirely inappropriate to 9.00am on a Sunday morning after a wedding.
The point, if there is one, is is this cultural appropriation? Should we be castigating the Welsh for their racist imperialism and lack of sensitivity? Or do we just say "that's rubbish" and move on?

it simply doesnt sit well after the disrespect Jamaicans endured with the windrush deportations, for a white British man to be banking on their culture.

The issue with these arguments is that many inventions that are attributed to the modern world is from english/scottish culture, should we therefore ban people from other countries from using anything from ours because technically they are appropriating our culture? To be honest the only time I hear culture appropriation is when it is from people who have not contributed much to the world.

yeh no. I think you issue more so stems from the lack of understanding of the argument, evident by your comparison with English/scottish culture. Cultural appropriation concerns power dynamics. Wikipedia summarises it quite well:
Cultural appropriation is the adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture.^[2][3][4] It is distinguished from an equal cultural exchange due to an imbalance of power, often as a byproduct of colonialism and oppression.

Doesnt quite apply to English people, I'm afraid.

Except we are not oppressing anyone, in the past we have but in the modern world?

and I quote myself

"it simply doesnt sit well after the disrespect Jamaicans endured with the windrush deportations, for a white British man to be banking on their culture."

Not to mention the economic growth Britain enjoyed from the exploitation of sugar plantations, with no reparations. Not to mention Caribbeans rebuilding Britain from the rubbles after WWII and were forced into ghettos and faced all sorts of systemic violence, with no reparations. And now in 2018 we are deporting these same black British citizens? There is no end to the disrespect, and oppression. So yes, the jaime Oliver joke rice isn't going to be well received, he's making money off a culture, while the people of that culture are being disrespected on that same land. the power dynamics are way off. its cultural appropriation.

yeh no. I think you issue more so stems from the lack of understanding of the argument, evident by your comparison with English/scottish culture. Cultural appropriation concerns power dynamics. Wikipedia summarises it quite well:
Cultural appropriation is the adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture.^[2][3][4] It is distinguished from an equal cultural exchange due to an imbalance of power, often as a byproduct of colonialism and oppression.

Doesnt quite apply to English people, I'm afraid.