Melissan Chen comments on the great intra asian rice war
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It’s not like they invented an implement specifically for eating rice or anything. 🥢
Yeah but the jungle asians in this case didn’t apparently and resent being taught how to use utensils
I firmly believe that there is such a thing as a racial inferiority complex.
When a primitive civilization comes into contact with a superior one, the inferior civilization's culture becomes frozen in time. Anyone who changes is viewed as just adopting the foreign culture, and that change isn't "genuine", even if the change is obviously for the better. So tradition is permanently fixed and they stubbornly act in a backwards way for the rest of time. See "acting white".
Hear me out, I think that's only partially true.
Civilization is not a constant, but it's also something that you either crossed the finish line on centuries ago, or else never were capable of doing so. Do not pass go, do not invent running water.
When I was young and naive on my first job in telemarketing I literally said to the arab guy "why do you speak like that voluntarily when you have the ability to speak normally?"
Previous to that moment I genuinely thought that they simply weren't exposed to proper Swedish due to segregation.
Seems like China didn't have that problem because they annihilated all their own culture less than a hundred years ago. That gave them a way to copy whatever was useful from the rest of the world without a second thought about if it was "genuine" or not.
Historically untrue. In most cases, primitive civilizations take over 'superior' ones almost wholesale. Have you ever heard of Romanization and Hellenization?
100%. You can see it anytime anyone mentions bad black behavior to the average black person. They immediately pivot to what about white people. Everything at every time is about white people
I think it’s more cultural than racial
There's a horizon past which those two are basically the same thing.
Culture is downstream of biology.
Yeah, but eating rice with chopsticks is only slightly more dignified than scooping it with your hand. You need to bring the bowl up to your face and shovel the rice in your mouth with the sticks. Use a fork, like God intended.
East Asian short grain rice are stickier and can be picked up as a clump, pajeet long grains are loose have to be scooped up with spoon or fork
Prior to forks Europeans ate with a knife primarily, not with their hands.
That means the wrong type of rice is being used. I'm not a rice expert, I just remember what I was taught as a child. I remember enough that I'm very picky which rice I like, and not much more.
A spoon is fine too.