Wow, that’s surprising. I’m an immigrant in NYC, where my own family isn’t happy that I’m even vegetarian and some restaurants in Brighton Beach (a neighborhood primarily of Soviet immigrants) have nothing vegetarian on the menu. I have heard that the immigrant community in New York is frozen in time, maintaining the culture of the Soviet Union while the countries of their birth have changed significantly. I wonder if that’s true in this context.
I mean, in the middle of a war, especially a defensive war, pragmatism is going to override a lot, and providing soldiers with meals that align with their preferred diets wherever possible is going to avoid a big hit to morale over making one eat things that they have some ethical or religious objection to, so it makes sense to do
That’s how many 21st century Americans think, but not how I expected Ukrainians to think. I was raised to eat what I was given, and when I became a vegetarian my family thought I was being ridiculous and even mildly offensive. My grandfather would tell me how people could only have moral objections to food because they had never been hungry. I’m sure he would have said “pragmatism” meant that a soldier eats whatever is edible.
Wow, that’s surprising. I’m an immigrant in NYC, where my own family isn’t happy that I’m even vegetarian and some restaurants in Brighton Beach (a neighborhood primarily of Soviet immigrants) have nothing vegetarian on the menu. I have heard that the immigrant community in New York is frozen in time, maintaining the culture of the Soviet Union while the countries of their birth have changed significantly. I wonder if that’s true in this context.
I mean, in the middle of a war, especially a defensive war, pragmatism is going to override a lot, and providing soldiers with meals that align with their preferred diets wherever possible is going to avoid a big hit to morale over making one eat things that they have some ethical or religious objection to, so it makes sense to do
That’s how many 21st century Americans think, but not how I expected Ukrainians to think. I was raised to eat what I was given, and when I became a vegetarian my family thought I was being ridiculous and even mildly offensive. My grandfather would tell me how people could only have moral objections to food because they had never been hungry. I’m sure he would have said “pragmatism” meant that a soldier eats whatever is edible.