[RayChuang88]

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.

[RayChuang88]

By the way, for your edification, here is the original BBC News article referenced:

Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes?

[maro]

That’s Japan. It appears that the Philippines is different.

[rbg81]

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

[Steely Tom]

BBC: Are Chopsticks Racist?

No, they're multi-cultural.

More college-educated twittery.

[TBall]

I’m just a fly white guy, but when I eat Chinese I use chopsticks unless I’m rolling up Moshi pork.

[GraceG]

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.

[Joe 6-pack]

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!!

[Vendome]

So putting tamales in banana leaves would be pushing it too.

Saffron in paella as well.

[Maceman]

I am so tired of racist leftists leftsplaining to us what we may or may not say and do.

I’m white. I eat sushi with chopsticks. Try and stop me.

[windsorknot]

There’s an old saying: He who smelt it, dealt it. That also goes for those so ready to accuse others of “racism”.

[LegendHasIt]

I guess I’m not a racist or appropriating something from a xeno-culture identity.

I’d starve to death if I had to eat with chopsticks.

[ThanhPhero]

I learned to use sticks In Viet Nam on my last day in country-1969. It occurred to me I couldn’t go home from such a place and not know how to use them seeing as I loved the food. I went into a café that didn’t normally have GI customers but I knew the proprietor and got a little bit of a dozen different things and a pair of sticks. I mastered it before I left there. My NN friends all say I don’t hold them right but” hey, that’s okay, it works for you!” I have come to prefer them where efficient. Wife and I and one of my kids use them regularly and wife and daughter cook for it, with everything in sticks sized pieces. You think how can you eat soup with them??? Well I do and it works fine.

[sergeantdave]

Here’s the latest poll:

Should the Nazi racists at BBC be machinegunned at dawn?

Yes - 98.7%
Don’t know - .00056%
This question confuses me - 2.0754%