relative cultural violations

 

Is it an offense to dip a croissant in coffee? If yes, sorry. If no, great because coffee-dipped croissants taste really good. I was born and raised in the Philippines where it is common to dip your bread in coffee—typically pan de sal (a breakfast roll that is both sweet and salty) dipped in kape (coffee that’s either instant or a local arabica) for breakfast.

I suppose cultural violations only happen in public? But when you’re in the comfort of your own home, you can do whatever you please as long as it isn’t harmful for you or others (at least physically). For example, slathering peanut butter on a banana and then inserting aforementioned banana in a hotdog bun sounds novel and potentially unacceptable in some cultures but when you think about it, it’s okay right? It could make sense. It’s those who are averse towards change who would dismiss such novelties because of some hardwired preference for the status quo. But we must remember that human progress was driven by the disruptive, out-of-the-box thinking of a select few. Unfortunately, the same kind of disruptive thinking has also led to catastrophic human demise, which is why the change-averse are the way they are. The way we are? Am I change-averse? No. Vice versa? Not quite. Sounding very conflicted, eh? 

Well, that was a good exercise.