Beyond smell and sensationalism: remixing durian for and by Asians and Asian Canadians in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Increased imports of durian to Canada has reiterated what Wenying Xu identifies as the tension between dominant food sophistication and ‘crude’ immigrant practices, where denigrating immigrant foodways was integral to colonial assimilationist projects (2007). While fresh durian in Canada appears in sensationalist online media that associate durian with disgust, it is also made palatable and popularized by mainstream non-Asian food bloggers and chefs. Focusing on online food discourse, this article examines the fraught position of durian in dominant Canadian foodways as associated with disgust when imported for Asian consumers, and with intrigue and exoticism when marketed in ‘elevated’ dishes created or consumed by white Canadians. It proposes that durian has nevertheless developed into a diasporic cultural connector and site of community building within Asian and Asian Canadian creators and consumers that resists this Orientalization, linking durian’s emergence in Canada to a larger history of Asian food ingenuity and adaptation to global marketplaces. The ’remixing’ of durian by Asian chefs who combine Asian and Asian Canadian cuisines, and diasporic connections created over discussing durian in online spaces, contest xenophobic and racist sentiments focused on Asian foodways, positioning online responses to durian as an emerging yet significant site of community and resistance.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it