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Gastrodiplomacy: Opening Minds by Filling Stomachs
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"Gastrodiplomacy: Opening Minds by Filling Stomachs" explores the role of food as an instrument of cross-cultural exchange and understanding, in three parts: why food is an ideal medium of communication, how food exchange can be an effective catalyst of conflict resolution, and a study that highlights the relationship between ethnic food consumption and positive or negative stereotyping of racial and ethnic groups. The study revealed that those who ate food that lies beyond their culture's traditional culinary boundaries fairly often were more likely to have a higher opinion of different racial and ethnic groups; those who rarely strayed beyond those boundaries were more likely to negatively stereotype different cultures. "Gastrodiplomacy" works its way through the foods of the world, and how innately geography, food, and politics are connected, whether it's through French discrimination against kebabs \u2014 a traditionally Middle Eastern food \u2014 or through the use of the dolma to help settle long-standing disputes between the warring countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Date Created
2015-05
Contributors
- Spear, Maggie Marie (Author)
- Larson, Elizabeth (Thesis director)
- Bluhm, Michael (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor)
- Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (Contributor)
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43 pages
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2014-2015
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29082
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minimal
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
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