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I am a Chinese person and I have never heard of mixing rice, or even owning more than one kind of rice in your house. It seems so foreign to me. Chinese households will have a big tub filled with rice, and it Is just "rice". We buy it in 20-pound sacks.
It's really interesting that the notion of different types of rice is mainly heard of in the cultures where it is not part of every meal. Guess they just imported it from everywhere and then decided to give them names.
There once even was a racist German rice commercial that made fun of "Master Fong" (or some other Chinese name) because he couldn't eat the non-clumpy German rice with his chopstick. As a kid who loved Chinese food (or what passes as Chinese in Germany) I found that to be preposterous and instructed my mom to never buy that rice.
In italy rice isn’t part of every meal, but we are the major producer in all Europe. We produce many types of rice by ourselves and they are really different by each other. We didn’t import ‘em and decided to give names…
I didn't mean that other countries don't grow their own rice, but that rice arrived over many more ways over the millenia in western countries than in the eastern countries where it had been widespread already, which wouldn't necessitate much exchange of different varieties.
But by the time the old Greeks and Romans got introduced to rice they very likely already had the pick from many different locations, giving them much more variety to choose from and start growing their own crops.
Reading over Wikipedia Africa and South America started cultivating rice much later than Asia. And if I read it correctly at least in the Americas the native rice was in competition with imported rice from Europe and Asia. So they as well had a wider variety of types to choose from.
But all in all it's just speculation on my part. No need to feel insulted.