/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I've been meaning to ask for a while, but I didn't want to come off as racially profiling or something, but since people brought it up... why do white people like raw meat so much? Is that as much a "white thing" as it seems?

Full disclosure: My personal circle tends to be comprised of black people, hispanics, and whites - very few Asians, and those are usually Indians and those Indians are usually vegetarians. In this (admittedly non-globally representative cross-section) I have never seen anyone but white people order meat less than well-done. As I began watching the Food Network - I like Iron Chef and Chopped - I began to notice that the meat is always raw when they put it on the plate, and this is considered cooked. They actually complain when the meat is cooked all the way through (FYI, cooking-show-judges... If it's still bleeding, it's raw. I am very firm on this). I've asked around as my curiosity grew to see how people like their meat cooked - none but white people have ever told me anything other than 'well done.' But none of the white people I've asked have said well done - the closest I got was medium well. What's up with that?

I checked stuffwhitepeoplelike.com to see if 'raw meat' was on there but I didn't see it, so I am thoroughly perplexed. I don't really count sushi since that's fish and not a bleeding mammal on a plate, but are there other non-white ethnicities out there that enjoy a good plate of barely-dead animal? And before you go "I'm Pakistani and I love rare (raw) meat," first off... did you grow up among other Pakistani who also ate it, or in a white household/neighborhood? Because then I would probably just count that as a learned behavior and an anomaly.