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India is a huge country with very unique cuisines, if I had to guess locals probably wouldn’t refer to their unique dishes as curry and will just call it by their name.

Yeah, so when I read their complaints about it, even the British Indians, i keep that in mind, because there's another conversation that's actually happening that I'm really just an observer (it's essentially an economic and cultural preservation argument). But outside that, language IS flexible - however much I still sideeye it, Malay CKT is berkuah and Sino-Malay use of jelak instead of muak fits their respective contexts. In America an entree is the main dish but to the French that is so silly because it obviously means a starter course.

I suppose the inciting incident here (calling kurma a curry) depends very much on what you reckon would be the likely result: perpetuated by a global cultural majority (gwailo anglophones) who simply say it's curry, it might lead to other ppl also making the same mistake, frustrating the ppl who originated the cuisine as well as ppl who'd like their Google search to not be corrupted further. If you want to take the power differential reading. That's the only angle to me that answers why you'd feel off about it. If it's just some rando saying a thing that'll not be popularized by other ignorant ppl, and it's just going to stay a silly English thing, then let it beeee