Please check your Antarcticentric privilege.

This is how I feel Ray Wise should be honored for his awesomeness

Attention, naysayers! Allow me to submit for your shutting-the-fuck-up now, Hottentot Venus. Educate yourself because I no longer have the patience.

Wonderful article! I now propose that one of your “ethnic” or “marginalized” contributors share a “LifeHack” on “What To Do If You Find Out That Your Privileged So-Called ‘Friend’ Has Been Using You For ‘Cheat Codes’, Instead of the Usual Shit About How They Like You As a Person and Shit Like That, Because Who Needs…

You probably don't realize it so and you're probably doing this with good intentions, but this post is actually pretty offensive to Asian Americans (I can't speak for other groups). Just Google "perpetual foreigner." Many of us Asian Americans were born in the US, we just want to be seen as American and not your…

yeah seriously, this is a "life hack"?: bring [ethnicity] friend to [ethnicity] restaurant and ask them what to order? boo, editors.

See that's a totally different thing. Like my brother's friend's taking us out to a very authentic Chinese place as a thank you is cool 'cause he offered, we didn't ask him to be our food tour guide.

Can we talk about the ridiculous use of the words "ethnic" and "native" in the lede of this article? It's obvious you live in Whitesville McSuburbia but damn, do you ever wonder what the "ethnic," "native" people you call "friends" think of you?

So I should my bring my "black friend" when going to a soul food joint?

Bringing an ethnic friend doesn't "maximize your ability to find the hidden dishes," it lets you take advantage of the fact that your friend can show respect toward and understanding of the culture/language in question.

Why don't you tell me to learn a bit of the language and go myself to show some respect to the…

Ick... how about you just do some research yourself, and check out Yelp or Urbanspoon or Chowhound or whatever and read what other people have to say?

"My husband had a Thai co-worker who always got invited to go to lunch at the local Thai eatery, because she knew where the real food was."

Bring along a native? Surely this article could have been worded better than this. At it stands, it's giving me a really uncomfortable vibe.

Ok, as one of those "ethnic" friends, seriously, don't do this. Nobody likes to be tokenized and put on the spot at the same time so that you can stoke your ego with our "authentic" food.

All the "ethnic" people are gonna wonder why the sudden rise in interest from the white people in their lives to go "get food". While in actuality it's not to spend quality time with the person but for rather selfish, food obsessed reasons. Just another form of exploitation , cracker ass crackers.

What a great suggestion! I'm so glad my white friends are going to invite me along to go out to eat so I can unlock the secret menu at the restaurant for them because they totally weren't going to do that before. Great motivation for them!

My puppy-rabies is far stronger than my baby rabies, so my favorite parts were "pug is excited to see daddy, too!" and "big dog is so excited he whacks baby in the head with his tail"