Gross food

I just read an article about a delicacy from Philippines called balut. It is a fertilised duck egg and when you crack it open, there will be a duck foetus which you then eat. It obviously grosses out many many people. I am a vegetarian at the moment, but I eat eggs. To be honest, I love the taste of fish and I always enjoyed eating chicken. Sometimes I do crave for these things. Maybe that is why I think that it is snobbish to feel superior about what you eat and don't eat.

There is so much prejudice all over the world about the culture, food, habits, celebrations etc of 'other people'. I have been the target of such prejudices because I am an immigrant in the country where I live and belonged to a minority group in the country where I was born. In my childhood, I was oblivious to it because I did not realise that I belong to a minority group. As I grew older, started working, got married, moved another country, I faced it from different sections of people at different times. Although it mostly made me angry at the time that I faced it, later on I realised that it is universal and almost everybody has to face it in one way or the other. Now-a-days, when I hear a prejudiced opinion, it just amuses me; even if it is directed at me.

I hope with all the technology and exposure, we will move forward to a world where people don't judge others based on their race, religion, ethnicity, nationality etc. There is definitely hope for one world where all of us are just human beings.