Crack the Stereotype
─── From Food to Culture
Outline
Taiwanese food has been famous for its delicious and tangy taste. Our team wondered, how does Taiwanese food sounds like in other countries. We decide to interview people from other countries and ask them about their impression of Taiwanese food. stereotypes about food culture are everywhere in your life, even though you think you don’t. In our video, as our members mentioned, it is interesting to know that things are not always what we think.
Participants
Our interviewees this time come from countries that most of us are not familiar with.
1. Mongolia
There are two interviewees from Mongolia. The girls both enjoy Taiwanese food a lot, the only thing they are not used to is the seafood, for them, seafood is not common food.
2. Turkey
He isn’t used to the food in Taiwan, and has many unique imaginations of the Asian food before he came here. Like for him, he said he thought that Asian people eat strange things like snakes or mosquitos.
3. India
He has stayed in Taiwan for almost four years, he likes Taiwan very much because of friendly people.
What are we doing in the video?
Our interview with them includes three parts: In the beginning of our video, we ask them to make brief introductions of themselves. and then, we ask them about their impression of the food they can eat here before they came to Taiwan. It is interesting that our interviewees have different imagination of what they will eat in Taiwan.
Before doing this project, I thought Taiwan is not a famous country, because European often confuse Taiwan with Thailand. And I often heard But I’ve heard that those who know Taiwan and like Taiwan will talk a lot about Taiwan to their friends and this make Taiwan be known among young generation.
They also mention their favorite food here, such as beef noodles and buns. Their favorite food won’t be same because of the same nationality.
And the special part of our video is to exchange our stereotype of each country and see if they are true. Just like we may think is that everyone in India know how to cook curry and eat curry every day? Does every Mongolian know how to ride horse? Do they speak Chinese? Does every owner of ice cream booth in Turkey play the same tricks to their customers?
In the video, we interview an Indian student, and he told us that not everyone knows how to cook curry in India. Moreover, does anyone here know a restaurant call magic curry (魔法咖哩) in our school? When we think of curry, we will think of India, so it is not surprised that many students in NCU, including us, think that the manager of the restaurant is from India. But the fact is that the manager is actually from Pakistan.
You can figure out the answers in our video.
Comparison in the video
Conclusion and our reflection
After filming this video, we found that editing a video wasn’t a hard work, but getting the meanings right is a more complicated work to do. You can see in our video, we put on the caption to help viewers quickly realize what the interviewees are talking about. Our interviewees are all from different countries, several accents may not be familiar to Taiwanese students, given that we are mainly familiar to American or British accents, therefore, by using the captions properly, we hope to make our concept and content more clearly to you guys. In addition, the choice of words is also unlike depends on their culture and individual habits, so when we are editing the video, we often had to hear many times to know what they are trying to said. But still, this is a very fun and challenging subject.
Unfair and offensive as they may be, stereotypes are ubiquitous. Logic tells us it’s ludicrous to label all, or most, members of a particular ethnic group as lazy, or untrustworthy, or unusually smart, but such shorthand thinking remains remarkably resilient. According to a journal from Psychological Science, “The process of repeatedly passing social information from person to person can result in the unintentional and spontaneous formation of cultural stereotypes,” That is, to precisely speaking, the circulation of information, or we can say only if we stop connecting to people, then the stereotype may be eventually vanished. However, it is impossible to stop people from connecting the society, to not being social, moreover, the use of Internet makes the connection circle bigger than it used to be.
We think that by having a deep interview with the foreign students, could make the audience know more about stereotypes. A stereotype isn’t a bad thing because when human beings contact to someone or something that is totally unfamiliar, it is not hard to comprehend the direct action of searching something familiar or information from former memories to try to make themselves unafraid or fear. But once we to go deeper, we should no longer uses stereotypes to definite things, in other words, what comes first is to either go directly to know by yourselves, or choose to have a great communion with those that stand a different point of views, see through in not only self-thinking, but a listener to those you think are incorrect, try not to think yourself as a good one.
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