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Asian Panethnicity in North America: How Pan-Asian Grocery Stores and Food Blogs Build Pan-Asian Culture
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Living in highly globalized societies, it is becoming popular for individuals to form
relationships and affinities with external sources of culture that are not from their own biological
ethnicity, which troubles traditional definitions of identity. The concept of panethnicity, where
various distinct ethnicities coalesce under a broader ethnic grouping based on common
experiences, shared interests, and/or political factors, becomes increasingly relevant to
discussions of identity and culture. This essay examines how Asian panethnicity in North
America is negotiated and reflected through Asian food culture. Specifically, it explores how
physical and digital sites of Asian panethnicity grounded in food, namely Asian grocery stores
and Asian food social media blogging, promote a distinct panethnic Asian culture and identity in
North America. Through analysis of these spaces and the people behind them, combined with a
literary analysis of the autobiography Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, this essay also
explores how Asian Americans and Asian Canadians engage and identify with panethnic Asian
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- Date created
- 2022-12-22
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- Type of Item
- Research Material