Hmmm. I was hoping the point would be more readily apparent. Let me try being a bit more explicit...
Here she was, alone in an Indian restaurant, loudly saying that her atonal rubber band twanging was comparable in quality to the best classical Indian music. Total "ugly American" move. You can't get much more culturally insensitive than that... It'd be like a Japanese tourist randomly arranging children's blocks and saying she was Emily Dickinson or something; I'm at a loss to come up with an adequate counterexample.
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Date: 2004-03-30 06:46 pm (UTC)Here she was, alone in an Indian restaurant, loudly saying that her atonal rubber band twanging was comparable in quality to the best classical Indian music. Total "ugly American" move. You can't get much more culturally insensitive than that... It'd be like a Japanese tourist randomly arranging children's blocks and saying she was Emily Dickinson or something; I'm at a loss to come up with an adequate counterexample.