"you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means."

To anyone who’s ever looked up a non-Western restaurant on Yelp and felt slightly perturbed by Joe Schmoe crediting his apparent expertise on dim sum authenticity to the 48 hours he spent in Hong Kong in 2003, this master’s students thesis on how Yelp reviewers’ use of ‘authenticity’ is yup, racist will speak to you:

When reviewers picture authenticity i…