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Another Westerner who hates his culture


Anthony needs to stick to food and stop giving us political lectures in every country. His "I hate myself because I am a Westerner" tendencies are far too obvious with his under his breath comments and political lessons.

When visiting South Africa he spent half the episode talking about how bad white people are and how good blacks are. The time he actually spent around white South Africans was so he could mock them.

When visiting Japan, he gave us a lecture at the end about how even though everything he showed us in Tokyo might seem weird and fetishy, the Japanese are actually better than Westerners for this reason and that reason.

He can't even admire Western culture when he is in Europe. I had to turn off the episode on Scotland because half of it was spent talking about the violence there instead of food. He did the same when in Russia. When in the Netherlands , he spent most of his time rolling his eyes at the weird people of Amsterdam. When in Paris and Rome, he seems to mostly focus on the uglier and goofy parts of the cities, as well as the immigrant communities which seem to be the only thing he likes about Europe.

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Non westerners say the same thing other way around. Grass is greener blah blah.

There is no right way. Each culture offers something that other one does not or doesn't do it right.

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The right way is to not eat bats.

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Are you mad? Americans go abroad and are famous for being ignorant arrogant hypocrites who disrespect local culture. Tony did the opposite when he could.

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You can respect another culture without attacking and hating your own.



Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

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I haven't seen many of his episodes but one that I did see was basically an African scrambled eggs. Basically Bourdain hangs out with some African tribesmen and they find a giant egg.
Then they build a fire.
Then they put a stick into the egg and stir/scramble it up.
Then the tribesmen clean the loose ashes out of the fire.
Then the tribesmen dumps the egg(liquid) right into the ashes of the fire.
A few minutes later the eggs are done and they pick the pieces out of the ashes and brush off the thick part of the ashes and eat the ashy scrambled eggs.

MMM mmm MMMMM



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When he visited Japan, did he bring up the public wife-beating?

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