arguing over silverware

perspective of Miyoung

With Donovan, I went to Chinese restaurant for dinner. He ordered some seafood rice menu, and I ordered Chinese and Korean style noodle. I usually use chopsticks to eat noodle. On the other hand, I use spoon for rice. However, he tried to eat wet rice with chopsticks. It looked so clumsy, because chopsticks couldn't hold wet and fluffy rice.. I thought it's better to use spoon, it's more convenient to eat, but he denied my suggestion. So I tried to convince him to use spoon to eat faster and easier to use example about Koreans like to use knife and fork. They thought it looked sophisticated..

Then he confuted that like that

"I don't use chopsticks to be sophisticated!"

He misunderstood my point, so I tried to correct my opinion about using spoon for rice.

In Korea, lots of people use spoon for rice unlike Japan. We sometime think it's impolite use chopsticks for rice. Also, it's more more more convenient.

When I saw some westerners who like using chopsticks for rice, I got impressed by that they mimic Asians using chopsticks. I know they try to learn different culture, but I feel sometimes weird.

When I lived in Manuka farm with New Zealander family, they loved Asian, especially China culture, so they tried to follow Chinese culture, but it was so strange. It didn't look like Chinese. It was a fusion of China and New Zealand culture. I was worried about they misunderstood about Asian culture.

One day, they cooked rice for me a lot. I was happy to eat rice but it was different rice kind and also I never save and keep rice in refridge to eat.

I mean, they just know some part of me and my culture.

so, I hope Donovan tried to know Asian culture well not just mimic some parts of faces..

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다노븐의 관점:

한국에서 매일 나 젓가락 써요. 젓가락 쓸때마다 점점 발전하고 있어요.

매일 개량해. 진짜로 요즘 아주 잘 젓가락 쓸 수 있어요.

젓가락 잘 써서 가끔 사람들이 나를 칭찬 해요.

꽤 많은 사람들은 말하는 적이 있어요. "더너븐 너 젓가락 더 잘 쓰요".

사람들은 이렇게 말 할 때 내 기분이 좋아요.

미영하고 같이 식당에서 내 "춘춘한 부풋한"밥 먹었을 때

젓가락 쓰기에 곤란 없었어요. 곤란 없으면 숫가락을 왜 바꿔요?

마자요. 숟가락 샀면 아마 먹기 더 쉬워요.

하지만, 한국에 밥먹기에 젓가락 더 일치해요.

한국에 외국인 이기나 아직 배어나요. 그래서 가능하면 "fin in"하기 해봐요.

예를 들면, 보기에 그 때 우리옆에 다른 테이블에 한국 사람 내 밥으로 같은 밥 먹고 있어요.

하지만 그 사람 젓가락을 쓰고 있었어요.

그래서 나는 뭐해요? 나도 젓가락을 싸요.

순진성을 읽거 해보고 있어요.(I'm not trying to be sophisticated)

그리고 한국 문화 택하거 안해 보고 있어요. 표준적이거만 해보고 있어요.

아라요. 젓가락 쓰다는 뒤쪽이에요. 그리고 구태의연해요. 그리고 이렇게 한국의 문화 하고 경제의 전진 방해한 거에요. I realize that Koreans use of chopsticks is backward and retards their cultural economic progress.