Spotted Dick & School...

[sistermagpie]

 bboyminn:

> In this case, the whole idea that Spotted Dick would be
> laughed at in the USA, but was very common and popular
> in the UK, did the job perfectly, by showing a very good 
> desert that had an odd name to the American view. I thought 
> this was the whole point of the thing. In a sense, the
> point of cultural diversity is to realize that we can't
> measure the world with ourselves at the center. Other people
> and other cultures see the world very differently than
> we do, and this illustrated that perfectly.
> 
> Still, we knew it was going to get a laugh, and be...how
> can I say this...culturally questionable. But still, I think
> the teacher WAY over reacted.

Magpie:
Yes, her reaction was certainly unfair. Even if she wanted to say to 
him that the choice of food wasn't a good one because everybody would 
think it was dirty, why should he get half0off if he did everything 
right? Unless he made his entire presentation about how it's a funny 
name, that's ridiculous.

-m