(FOOD.cort mul.tee.KUL.chur.uh.liz.um)
n.
The practice of enjoying the attributes of several cultures other than one's own in a superficial and temporary way. Also: food-court multiculturalism.
Example Citation:
Cultural conservatives have never really understood diversity, preferring to equate it with a superficial food-court multiculturalism and with the apparatus of coercion: affirmative action, political correctness and lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits.
—Philip Gold, "New tactics needed for cultural wars," The Washington Post, March 8, 2002
—Philip Gold, "New tactics needed for cultural wars," The Washington Post, March 8, 2002
Earliest Citation:
When multiculturalism means more than the (literal) wearing of different hats, or the assortment of fast food options available at the food court in a suburban mall, accommodating diversity becomes far more complicated. (5)...
(5) What I call the "food court multiculturalism" resembles Fish's
discussion of "boutique multiculturalism."
—Alyson Cole, "The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism (Review)," Michigan Law Review, May 1, 2001
Notes:
Thanks to Patrick Kalaher for suggesting this phrase.
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diversity fatigue
dumb up
emotional correctness
ethnoburb
molecular gastronomy
racial battle fatigue
theme dormitory
transnational suburb
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