If You Eat Ramen uncooked you’re Opressed?

Question

“Those of us privileged enough (yes, I said privileged) to enter into the lives of children with hard life experiences must be willing to sit down, eat uncooked Ramen noodles and listen.”

A social media friend posted a story the other day about a foster child growing up eating uncooked ramen. He said it reminded him of the hard times and every time he ate uncooked ramen it reminded him to be strong. The foster mom tried it and said it was not great, then wrote a story about children growing up in trauma infused homes such as her foster child. 
I don’t know about you guys, but I grew up on ramen and often ate it uncooked. I thought it was delicious. I’m not sure if this story was supposed to focus on the abuse the child had gone through or on the uncooked ramen (maybe it was a poorly written narrative) but I took it as kids who grow up eating uncooked ramen are oppressed.  Anyone seen that post? Can anyone enlighten me on the point?

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I think you're missing the point here OP. 
If you ate uncooked ramen because you liked it or didn't know how to cook, good for you I guess. 
But there's a difference between CHOOSING and WANTING to eat it. And HAVING to because you don't have running water, or electricity, and a .15 cent pack of ramen is all your mom could afford to feed you for dinner. 
The point of the post, is to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has nothing. And HAS to eat the most basic and cheap of foods for survival. To see things from thier perspective
That's what it means. 
Stop. Step outside of your privileged mindset. And try to see things from the eyes of those who weren't as privileged as you.

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Here's a different analogy with the same point that might help you. 
Go out and camp in a tent for a couple nights
Now isn't there a difference between wanting to camp, and doing so because you have the desire to, and knowing that you have a house to go back to when you want, 
And 
Sleeping in a tent because you DONT have a choice. That's all you have. You don't have a house. 
Does that analogy make more sense?

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The point of the post would be that he personally was oppressed in his life and that was a staple meal for him during that time. Therefore, now that his is more taken care of, he eats that meal to remind himself of how far he’s come and how strong he is. By no means does it mean that specific meal, or preference to something = oppression. That’s not a logical conclusion.

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No he had no choice but to eat that and you couldn’t cook which is why you ate it. So he’s eating it to remind him of how far he has come in life. You wanted to eat raw ramen and he had no choice big difference

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I mean idk about uncooked but we grew up eating noodles and we mostly did it when we had too. But it was cooked over the stove or microwave. Same with beanie and weenies, cereal for dinner, gulosh (however you spell it) or soup. That was our struggle meals and I still eat them now just because it was still good food.
I don’t think about what I didn’t have I just eat cause I’m hungry. He just may be doing the opposite to connect with that time.

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This post resonates with me so much
 Because it reminds us to be thankful for what we have. To see the bigger  picture. To not complain to your mom when you have a pantry full of food, that there's nothing to eat. This also resonates with me because when I was 9 my dad abandoned my mom, brothers and me. He forged over 40k  in her name.  We almost lost our house and my mom had to declare bankruptcy in order not to lose it. So we had a roof over our heads. My mom struggled to put food on the table and most nights we ate Ramen, Mac and cheese or Boiled hot dogs. It's what she was able to afford to make sure we had food in our stomachs. She would also shop for our clothes at goodwill, because that's what we could afford. We were often made fun of because of all of this. But to this day we still eat those foods and shop at all those stores. It reminds us of our strengths and struggles and what we overcame and what a strong badass our mom is.

If You Eat Ramen uncooked you’re Opressed?

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