Now that's cultural appropriation! Thousands of years of domestication and breeding by Chinese fruit growers, and then New Zealand takes all the credit!
> Thousands of years of domestication and breeding by Chinese fruit growers, and then New Zealand takes all the credit!
The kiwi does seem to have been domesticated by the Chinese, but you wouldn't want to infer that from the name "Chinese gooseberry". They could be like the Norwegian rat (also from China) or the "Persian" peach, prunus persica (which is from China too).
Maybe you should just assume that everything comes from China.
The kiwi does seem to have been domesticated by the Chinese, but you wouldn't want to infer that from the name "Chinese gooseberry". They could be like the Norwegian rat (also from China) or the "Persian" peach, prunus persica (which is from China too).
Maybe you should just assume that everything comes from China.