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BBC: Are Chopsticks Racist?
Breitbart (referencing BBC News article) ^ | March 4, 2017 | Virginia Hale

Posted on 03/04/2017 3:09:22 PM PST by RayChuang88

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This is essentially political correctness run amok.

I really wonder did the author of the original BBC article realize when the Japanese adopted Western foods during the Meiji Era (the adapted cuisine is known in that country as youshoku), many Western foods adapted were often eaten with chopsticks. Indeed, many youshoku restaurants in Japan still have people eating with chopsticks, not with a fork and knife.

1 posted on 03/04/2017 3:09:22 PM PST by RayChuang88
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By the way, for your edification, here is the original BBC News article referenced:

Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes?

2 posted on 03/04/2017 3:11:41 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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That’s Japan. It appears that the Philippines is different.


3 posted on 03/04/2017 3:11:51 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: RayChuang88

Or maybe we are racist for NOT using chopsticks? [/s]


4 posted on 03/04/2017 3:13:10 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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True, but I know many Filipinos who eat with chopsticks—thanks to the strong Chinese influence in that country (Manila has a large Chinese expatriate community).


5 posted on 03/04/2017 3:13:37 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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BBC: Are Chopsticks Racist?

No, they're multi-cultural.

More college-educated twittery.

6 posted on 03/04/2017 3:14:26 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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>>Or maybe we are racist for NOT using chopsticks? [/s]<<

Yes, both are racist. So is using your hands or not using your hands.


7 posted on 03/04/2017 3:15:45 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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I don’t know, I never seen a chopstick wearing a white sheet.


8 posted on 03/04/2017 3:17:55 PM PST by Rodm
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In fact I know several Orientals that prefer chopsticks to this day. I eat with them occasionally myself. Just to prove I can. 8>)


9 posted on 03/04/2017 3:18:06 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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I’m just a fly white guy, but when I eat Chinese I use chopsticks unless I’m rolling up Moshi pork.


10 posted on 03/04/2017 3:19:13 PM PST by TBall
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I’m a honky and I always use a fork and knife! I’m so lost in this argument...


11 posted on 03/04/2017 3:25:02 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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I have chopsticks in my car. Chinese food is prepared to be eaten with chopsticks! I cook mostly Shanghai Homestyle as taught to me by my lady friend. I prefer it. I only have 5 woks in my kitchen.


12 posted on 03/04/2017 3:27:11 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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I at this today:

It was yummy as hell and I ate it with chop sticks!

Thankfully no whiny liberals were around to whine about cultural appropriation.

13 posted on 03/04/2017 3:28:06 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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If you see an Asian person using forks and knives you should say “Hey buddy drop the fork and knife, you are culturally appropriating European silverware!!!!”


14 posted on 03/04/2017 3:29:56 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Rodm

So to not be racist means i have to give up several of the foods that I currently love because I am polish and all I can eat from now on out are runzas, polish sausage, and boiled potato soup?

Not to mention all the racists restaurants that will have to close like panda express, taco bell, and tokyo joes????

Gee, the PC crowd wants us to only eat what our ancestors ate.... isn’t that racist?


15 posted on 03/04/2017 3:32:28 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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My junior year of high school, I was fortunate enough to take a year of Mandarin Chinese which was a combined language and culture class. Our teacher made a point of making sure that every student mastered the art of using chop sticks, and after that, I always made the most of every opportunity to show off my skills. About 10 years later when I was stationed in Korea, I would go out with my Korean friends or coworkers and they told me I was holding my sticks like a Chinese.

It never occurred to me that there were different techniques, but in light of this article, I wonder if the author realizes that native chopstick users could be culturally appropriating each other!!

16 posted on 03/04/2017 3:38:57 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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So putting tamales in banana leaves would be pushing it too.

Saffron in paella as well.


17 posted on 03/04/2017 3:42:07 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: miss marmelstein

I was never coordinated enough but I tried a few times anyway.


18 posted on 03/04/2017 3:43:29 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Did you ever wok a cat?


19 posted on 03/04/2017 3:47:26 PM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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I’ve been known to deep fry tamales, is that culturally insensitive? Tastes great when don right.


20 posted on 03/04/2017 3:48:30 PM PST by Lee Enfield (Liberate East Prussia)
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