In Total Human history, we can find only 2 vast sphere influences. The Western world and the Eastern world. Go further, that seems this world can be separated only 2 parts, East and West. I think only these two powers have never been stopping the huge competition over than 6000 years. In my opinion, the first head-on collision was shown ‘by Swords’ with Chingiz Khan and Alexander

The second one could be called the ‘Money and Culture War’ between those two worlds. And the battlefield looks like North and South America. And that, I guess, we are losing power this moment. As you guys know, America seems covered with Western culture. Of course its based on western things. But look up and down our children. What clothes they wear. How long time they need to spend for learning western languages. Specially, ‘English’. Do western children have to do same thing? I don’t think so. Probably, all of our languages and letter systems will be disappeared soon.

I guess our cultural heritage would be an obstacle for our kids in future world. Because it will be too heavy for them learning to both heritages even though one of them will not be necessary longer for their whole life.

What do you think about this progress? Acceptable? Being Like African Americans will be cool? Or we still need some chances?

Sometimes, I know it’s definitely wasting my time, I have got some heavy a sense of shame when I have to read some E-mail filled with weird symbols… a b c d e f g h I j k….they look like some sort of passwords to me.

"In Total Human history, we can find only 2 vast sphere influences"

wow that's a stretch. lol. you seem to think east and west are just one solid block of people.

and also why didn't you just talk about globalization instead of chopsticks and knives.

Thank you for your response.

you got the point what I need. so, If u don't mind tell me what do you think about this type of 'globalization'. Do you think others also believe this is the only way to go to 'Globalization'?

I feel most comfortable eating with neither chopsticks nor knife-fork. My indian best fren's brother said that if chinese folks are more evolved than caucasians who still use crude weapons to eat (knife-fork)... but the indians are the most evolved... because they don't need any weapons to eat, just their bare hands...

Sure. What a philosopher! I'm sure the next time I'll tell the physician not to use gloves when he examines me. That Indian guy is definitely 'more evolved'. He should get a Nobel Prize on Medicine and Sanitation.

I use a spoon, not knives and fork. Well, actually I use a fork for eating steak and stuffs like that cause it's just easy to stab it then pass it to your mouth. I speak English only though my family was from Germany.

Filipinos do not use utensils because they think its primitive.

oh ya???

the indians think the same too that it's primitive to eat with cutlery!

They also claim they make the finest love in the world juz cuz they eat with their bare hands...

If you lick your fingers then maybe you'll lick something else too???

Maybe people who use fork and spoon and chopsticks do not cut their nails.

That has got to rank as one of the top dumbest things ever said.

Eat with your hand 101


http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/eat-w...-a-la-marketman


A typical rich Filipino family enjoying fine dining eating food with their hands on banana leaves.

Did you know that you can't wash your hand well enough
to remove all of the bacteria from accidental incursions of feces to your hands?

Typhoid Mary was a cook who carried the disease in her intestinal tract.
Whenever she went to the bathroom, she would accidental innoculate her hands.
Common washing of the hands doesn't remove all the germs.
She infected all of the people for whom she worked as a cook.

But, please continue to eat with your hands ...
after all, you are what you eat?????


Edit: Sorry, but those are the facts.
That is why we use utensils ... to be healthier.
But, still there is nothing wrong with finger food.
Should just be more aware to wash throughly before meals.

it's weird if you just get out of the restroom and eat with your hand, even if you already sanitize both hands.

however, using hand for pizza and hamburger is okay, but rice?? thats disgusting.

yea a lot of Indian and village people of Indonesia eat with their hands and i have grown up in a society where that is not sanitary. but i have no complaints i just refuse to eat with my hands unless its "finger" food.

But i would like to state that forks and spoons are by far way more efficient that any chopsticks you can use. and i will argue that people and nation that use chopsticks use it traditionally than logically lol ^_^

i think if u eat nasi and curries with fingers all yr life, u won't ever eat it with anything else..but fingers!

same with noodles and chinese dishes, u won't ever eat chinese food with anything else ... but chopsticks!

so it is with steaks and chips, and the usual western dishes, u won't ever eat them with anything else ... but fork and knife!

there's nothing logical or illogical about it, don't be stupid...

Yes, Filipinos are in a class of their own

Welcome to Spoon-Fork World

yea you're right. as i said culture/traditional uses. all the same. but in a nasi (rice) eating contest where you cannot tip the bowl and only eat with one hand. and you have choice of eating with a fork or a set of chopsticks. which you think is better and faster to eat with? i was just stating what is a more efficient eating utensil. But i prefer chopsticks cause its fun to use ^_^

I remember when I was in Narita Japan I would eat Sushi with my hand and the Japanese were staring at me like I have done something wrong.

Filipinos would find soup slurping like what the Chinese and Koreans do very disgusting and piggish.

Wrong again .. ole would be reporter/ journalist

What you eat with all depends on where you are, who you are with and what is available to you
Steak and chips? If they were sliced to bite size servings and placed in the middle of the table
You just as easily eat them with chopsticks .. if that was all that was available or
you're eating with asian friends or family.
Noodles? Hey, often eat them with a fork.
Flat plate and chinese food is easier to eat with forks.

You make generalizations and they don't fit.
Especially in the western world, not all asians eat with chopsticks
And not all white people eat with just knives and forks.
This can be seen at Chinese restaurants in NYC ... just check out tea time .. dim sum.

In China, making chopsticks for utensils is easier and cheaper than making knives and forks.
Raw material, equipment and energy used ... think about it.
Still, there are some now who have discovered the abilities of forks


Edit: I would like to say that my meds made me say that
But, that just wouldn't be true

It's all social norms.

i hear ya, i ate a friends house who was korean rice with my hands back in highschool, and his parents just looked at me with a mean stare.
i felt awkward so i grabbed a spoon and started using that.
if im in my own home i could careless if i eat with my hands etc because i wash my hands before i eat. But when outside like a restaraunt i use whatever is there at the moment lol
that chick looks pretty cute too btw in that pic

once in a chinese restaurant near my university in England, i saw this white guy drink soup with the opposite thin end of the chinese soup spoon (see the right end of the spoon below)..

when everybody laughed at him, he said he was trying to cool his hot and sour soup this way... !!

This is the modern cultery of the 21st century

The Spork

It is innovative thinking that will save us all from the boredom of our own deaths

why don't u go get bored to death???

i've try this experiment before. it's the chopsticks!

reason is simple, once you finish most of the rice, which utensil is easier to pick up the last few grain of rice? try doing that with a fork, it's impossible unless you're lucky the rich is sticky.

If you are annoyed with me
Then I have accomplished my goal.
Thanks

Its a pity that you're so easily rattled

*yaaaaaawn...* gotta hop..

Knife and fork are easier to use for all kinds of foods. Chopsticks are best for Asian food.

BTW. If you lack a fork, two knives used carefully are just as good. When Camping, and there is a shortage of utensils, a knife and a stick of wood will suffice.

Gotta hop?? Why??
Did you break a leg?

Your attempts to show disinterest is pitiful.
Please, it is okay to scream and cry.
We all know you as the drama queen

Its easier to eat fried chicken with a hand than with spoon and fork or knife or chosticks.

It would be an over-simplification to say there are just two spheres of influence. I would say there have been at least several different spheres of influence throughout history, all originating from the five original civilizations:

Mesopotamia spawned the Near-Eastern civilization.
Egypt spawned the African and Western civilizations.
The Indus Valley spawned the South Asian civilization.
China spawned the East Asian civilization.
And Mexico spawned the Native American civilization.


All of that applies to knives, forks, spoons and chopsticks too... how would you know where those eating utensils came from, what germs they have, or whose arse they've been in?

Personally, I find it more hygienic to eat with our hands... at least we know where they've been, and regularly wash and clean them more than any utensils. Sorry, but those are the facts... but to each their own, I guess.

Utensils were used to be healthier. Soon, they became a sign of being civilized.
But, by all means use your hands for eating food.
Next time you're at a restaurant and decide you want pasta or noodles or rice or
... wait, what is it that you eat with you hands?
Because you know that your hands have been up your arse,
I guess that makes it alright or cleaner than being up my arse.

Let me see, I know of no one who takes knives and forks to the bathroom to wipe their arse???
Do you?

Seriously, If you feel like going ape wild or neanderthal then go ahead.
Eat with your hands. But, history has given you lessons ...
Fail to learn it and you're doomed to repeat it.

Note: You can sterilize utensils with hot boiling water ... would you put your hands in boiling water?

Yeah, to each his own, I guess?

No, not really.


Rice is easier to eat with hands. Pasta and noodles are easier to eat with forks or chopsticks.


My arse > your arse


I've seen it in pornos.


History has taught us that all kinds of utensils can carry disease.


You don't have to put your hands in boiling water to sterilize them.


Agreed to disagree.

I've never understood why most people would always say eating with chopsticks is difficult.. while it's not, I've always known how to handle them
without having to learn it, like some automatic reflex..

SOMEBODYS trying hard to be asian today....




anyway, chopsticks are great...for asian food. i wouldnt use it to eat steak or speghetti. i know some people say its slower to eat with chop sticks as if thats something bad.

its not a race you fools. if you want to race i can still eat rice faster with chop sticks and a bowl then you with spoon or fork. guaranteed you will probably hit your own mouth several times with the spoon as well.

(yes ive raced before for fun)

lol, no I was just saying it's not difficult eating with chopsticks

hello kitty sig as well.

the evidence is undeniable.

I'd be infatuated with Hello Kitty even if it weren't Asian, and I'd have tried eating with chopsticks even if I wouldn't have had a liking for Asia and Asian culture..

i always find it amusing when asians try to justify their attraction to asian things by saying "id like it even if i wasnt asian".

lol, no you were implying I liked Hello Kitty because it's Asian, so I replied "even if etc. etc." lol

its both. hello kitty is asian. so are you. perfect match.

Eating rice with your hands is kind of gross imo... but hey, it's your body. You are responsible for what goes into it, so if you get sick because your hands weren't sanitized then that's on you. However, I'd trust utensils that were washed several times instead of a person's hands who have been god knows where. We're always touching things (doors, money, public computers, etc) that have also been handled by hundreds of other people each day. You don't know what kinds of bacteria they might have.

hmm I'm also a fan of Garfield, Felix the Cat.. does that make a less then perfect match?

yes. far less perfect.

nobody's perfect

stop pretending to be asian.

hmm I don't really see why you think I'm pretending to be Asian..

Chimpanzees also use to eat with sticks, are they also Asian wannabe? j/k

do they like hello kitty?