British government annouces anti-knifecrime chicken takeout boxes

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@andrewlwood

I’m British. There are plenty of chicken shops along our local London high street, and their clientele is pretty ethnically diverse. Fried chicken is a much more general urban youth thing here than it is race-specific,and I suspect reflects the general demographics of the local young population.

And it’s the same in the U.S.A. that the clientele of fried chicken restaurants is pretty ethnically diverse. The issue is not the actual demographics, but the psychological associations that are in the minds of the populace at large. Stereotypes don’t have to have any basis in fact (especially facts about the present day) in order to have cultural power.