In human culture history, people were born, lived, and died in a limited geographical area, and they never encountering other cultural backgrounds. However, in nowadays, the world has become borderless. As the world shrinks and counties become interdependent, people from different cultures increasingly come into contact on a daily basis. Now, people may live far away or just next door to each other, so that all people are faced with the challenge of understand this world. So when the east meets west, People would be influenced by each other. Especially the dining cultures, some of them are listed as follows.
American food culture
Lack of local food culture, American food culture comes from the rest of the world. It is like Shenzhen, a city of China, people come from other place. People bring their own food culture to the United States, such as …show more content…
All creatures must eat and drink in order to survive. However, the food for eating is all patterned by culture. For instants, Americans eat oysters but not snail. The French eat snails but not locusts. The Jews eat fish but not pork. The Hindus eat pork but not beef. The Russian eat beef but not snake. People all have ideas about what kinds of food are good or bad to eat by their culture.
As a result, people often think that the food from other culture is disgusting or nauseating. In some culture, certain foods are taboo. Sometimes the food taboos may be so strong that just the thought of eating forbidden foods can cause an individual to feel ill. Chinese love to eat fresh material, while American likes to eat frozen food. We can accept killing living things for food, and no food taboo. However, American cannot accept killing livings for food by their religion, and they will not eat frogs, dogs, shark fins for some other reasons. The following, I will use cooking livings as an