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The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVII
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Zack
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I was thinking of the Kanye West song.
cybrxkhan
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Personally I just do the old 1) make a hand drawn map; 2) scan it; 3) clean it up a bit with paint or gimp or something; 4) voila, map.
But admittedly that is rather limited in some aspects.
But admittedly that is rather limited in some aspects.
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This question is for people of east Asian heritage living in western countries:
Do westerners look stupid eating with chopsticks at Asian restaurants? I can't help but feel a little pretentious. Should I just use the knife and fork?
Do westerners look stupid eating with chopsticks at Asian restaurants? I can't help but feel a little pretentious. Should I just use the knife and fork?
madviking
north american scum
i still don't get why people eat with chopsticks; it's a very inefficient food utensil.
Zack
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cybrxkhan
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Like a lot of instances where people of a different culture try to do stuff from another culture consciously, it depends on how and where you do it. If you do it adequately and don't draw attention to yourself (I.e. make it look like you're trying too hard to "fit in" when there's no need to), I don't think there's an issue. No need to say things like "Oooh look at how awesome and culturally aware I am using these chopsticks," but I think almost everyone save a few narcisstic pricks will do that. If you can't use chopsticks adequately then, yeah, you might look like a fool, but I don't think most of us Asians really care either way, there's a lot more better ways to offend us.
tl;dr: Probably not a problem either way. If some Asian person is being a prick about a non-Asian using chopsticks, they're probably, well, being a prick.
(In case nobody here knows, I'm one of them Vietnamians, and, thus, by extension, making me an infallible, all-knowing expert on all things Asian.)
Fun fact: I didn't figure out how to properly use chopsticks until I was 6 or something.
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A follow-up question to the one about Westerners and chopsticks:
Do Asians prefer chopsticks or fork and knife? Do you get a choice when you eat at a restaurant/home what to use?
Do Asians prefer chopsticks or fork and knife? Do you get a choice when you eat at a restaurant/home what to use?
Zack
99% hot gas
This made me think of my own question -- why has "Asian" become synonymous with oriental?
cybrxkhan
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I think that depends on how assimilated into Western culture that person is, and, well, it also just depends. Me, and I think from experience a lot of fellow Asians who are second or 1.5 generation, really don't care either way. I just pick up whatever's the closest, which usually is forks at home, since we have more forks than chopsticks for whatever reason.
My brother does prefer to use chopsticks as a matter of pride, though.
Because 'Murica.
But honestly my wildly uneducated guess is that it's just a convenient shorthand for "East Asian" because East Asians were the more prominent Asian group in America (in contrast to, say, folks from South Asia in Britain, hence why there Asian = South Asian).
madviking
north american scum
if engineering is rasist then i guess i am
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
I've never even thought about using that.
I have used chopsticks as impromptu sparring swords before. Of course, being the child I was, my parents were not too happy at the time.
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Blame the Latin speakers. They are the ones who called the rising and setting sun orient and occident. Or Europe, cause they named everything east of them oriental.
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