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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Wow, that is one that I find surprising. I don`t know anyone in Japan who knows those sort of stereotypes - they seem to be limited to the US... Although I assume your teacher had probably lived in the US for a while (if not forever) and picked it up there.
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Yeah, pretty much. She's originally from Nagoya, iirc. She married an American many years ago (her youngest is about my age, and living in Africa now, if I remember right) and moved here. Her husband is an Akido instructor, but, he's white. I guess she hasn't been around a lot of black people in the sense of cuisine, or, maybe because we're in Virginia, and it is known for "southern cuisine" and fried chicken being one of the main dishes eaten, and, on television, it's stereotyped that all we eat is "soul food" and I guess my being overweight furthered the misconception. See, for that lesson, we were learning names of foods, so I explained, as best as I could back then, that my family did not eat fried chicken (Kazoku wa FURAIDO CHIKIN o tabemasen deshita [I think I said then]). Anyway, I told her that my family had turkey for that meal, she actually looked surprised. I even mentioned something along the lines of how I didn't care much for fried chicken in general, and she looked surprised.