FoOD in our Life.

Food is the ultimate weapon of life. We eat food in everyday life, and appreciate the taste of cultures and experiences of many things. We can think about things like cultures and health while we eat food. We cannot live without food because we get hungry in our body and in our mind. Food can be a great teacher who can teach different cultures of people.

When we think about the strong nation, it is a nation with a strong culture. Within these cultures, we can explore that they have ultimately different food cultures as well. These food cultures act as the representation of each individual country. When we think about Mexico, we think about taco, Korea with Kimchi, Japan with Sushi, etc. We find ourselves involved in these different cultures everyday in life, in the way we eat. Some people eat with hands and some eat with chopsticks. Some have side dishes and some do not. Through these things, we can observe each other’s culture.

In addition, the food has a very strong power. People can gather up in front of food and share opinions while eating. In this busy life, the only place or time that families share their thoughts is at the dinner table. In addition, food makes us happy through the taste. Some people say while they are eating, they think feel like in “heaven on earth.” Also the food makes us healthier in different ways. When we consume a healthy food, the nutrition in the food produces vitamins inside our body.

In our nation, we have many different cultures mixed up together. There are about 33 million foreign-born populations in U.S. and it is increasing constantly. Many people have questions about their identities or their race even though they are born as an American. What would be the responses of those second-generations? Where can they find their identity? I will say it is very simple to categorize them. First, we should not categorize them by their race, but we should categorize them by their cultures. In my opinion, racial identity is meaningless.