2.28.2006

What's the opposite of Melting Pot?

Identity Soup, apparently.

"Made with smoked bacon, pigs' ears, pigs' feet and pigs' tails together with assorted vegetables and sausages, the soup is meant to make a political statement: 'Help our own before others.'

The 'others,' Ms. Bonnivard explained, are non-European immigrants who she and her colleagues on the far right say are sopping up scarce resources that ought to be used for descendants of the Continent's original inhabitants. In other words, the soup is meant to exclude those who do not eat pork — for the most part, Muslims and Jews."

At least America doesn't have a monopoly on far-right bigotry, racism, and ignorance.

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