White American culture is General Tso’s Chicken and Chop Suey is an angry and trite essay. Apparently most people in America don't know that Amercian-Chinese food, derived in some sense from Chinese food, isn't actually what people eat in China. The essay then draws a line from that to the horror of white Americans trying to relate to Chinese americans (or just racial Chinese) through the 'chinese' food they eat.

How terrible that people try to find something in common with people they meet to start a conversation. How incredibly offense! I'm wringing my hat!

I can't state enough how much it annoys me that people ascribe terrible motives or underlying currents of racism to these things. Sure, it's a situation rooted in ignorance, but it doesn't seem something to get angry about. Knowing the history of Chinese-American food is interesting, perhaps this angry person should just educate people, and maybe calm down!