Analogy

I was reading a paper I wrote in a Jazz class in college,

and I was surprised by the funny analogy I made up.

“Each dilution was simply a phenomenon based on cultural limitations (or excess) and, as such, was only related directly to the cultural elements which provided for existence. Fletcher Henderson was not responsible for the Ipana Troubadours, just as Charlie Parker was not responsible for Boyd Raeburn.”[1] In other words, the Chinese chefs in the mainland who pour out their souls into their state-of-art dishes are not responsible for the low quality, commercialized taste of the American Chinese food.

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[1] Jones, 221.

I like that!