Toby Young Toby Young

Status Anxiety | 31 October 2009

Americans taking offence on behalf of poor ‘victimised’ foreigners is offensive — to me

issue 31 October 2009

Americans taking offence on behalf of poor ‘victimised’ foreigners is offensive — to me

Oh dear. I may have to write a book called How to Lose More Friends and Alienate More People. In a recent episode of Top Chef, the American cooking show I appear on, I complained about the other judges’ insistence on pronouncing ‘paella’ as ‘py-ay-a’.

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