Why do people around the world have their own way in eating their meals?!
Why do people around the world have their own way in eating their meals?
Indonesians used to use their hands
If the meal is soupy, we used banana leaves
Koreans Japanese Chinese use chopsticks
Westerns used knives and forks.
Is it because our meals are different or its is something cultural?
Answers:
Both. It has to do with what exactly we are eating, and how we were raised to eat.
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Don`t forget many cultures only eat with the right hand because they use the left for something else!!
I would say primarly cultural. Obviously I think eating rice with chopsticks is far more difficult then using hands. Indians use their hands, but as you mentioned the Japanese and Chinese use sticks. Again it is all cultural.
its the culture,,,culture is the value, beliefs, BEHAVIOR and material objects that together form a person's way of life
I think the implements used for eating are cultural, and the type of food resulted from the implements used. In other words, the Chinese independently developed chopsticks for eating, and the cuisine that resulted is appropriate for eating with chopsticks. Also, the implements resulted from the materials that were available. Chopsticks are made from bamboo, which was plentiful in China. In Ethiopa, where there's not much of anything, people tend to eat with their hands, using their flat bread (Injera) as a scoop.
what planet you from.
If you think logically, why WOULD there be the same system. different food is best manipulated in different ways, and to take another, parallel case, characters used in writing vary hugely depending on the culture, it's just the way the leaders at the time thought was best to do something.
i guess its the culture!
like how the brits eat their food in front of a tv on their settee instead of round the table with the whole family gathered!!
Chopstick were originaslly used as you could break a couple of twigs from a bush without buying metal eating irons, We use metal weapons because they are cheap to manufacture here. We don't grow bananas so can't use the leaves. Its all a case of what you can use, you will use. Like regional dishes using what is cheap and available, in a way...