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Does eating African rice with a European spoon make the rice also European?
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The question separates a thing from the tool used with it. Rice does not become European simply because someone eats it with a European spoon. The comparison suggests that contact, use, or association with something from another culture does not automatically change an object’s identity or origin. What is used to handle something is not necessarily what that thing is.
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