Post #70966
2025-12-16 21:23 UTC
I’m not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value.
People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another’s style as tacky.
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@exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-16 21:53
But you described it as “suffering.” The subjective experience of a person in that culture is that the food is less pleasant to consume. In other words, the enjoyment of the food is actively discouraged, in favor of another criterion (the suffering that comes from eating it). So we can point out that the culture does not prioritize the enjoyment of food as much, and can stand by that particular metric as having directionality on that spectrum.