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[...Stuff about how to use chopsticks...]

Kenji> Funny, these seem to me very natural reaction for anyone not familiar with
Kenji> foreigners.  I wonder this kind of behaviour, very naive, hurt a foreigner.

I particularly won't care if someone ask me whether "I like Japan" or not.
However, (This is my *point of view*) I don't like people asking me if 
I can use chopsticks or not. Think about you living in America and
Europe and everybody saying all the time; "Have you eaten Hamburger?",
"Can you use Fork and knives?", etc..etc.. In my first years here, I
really didn't care about it, but after so many years I tired to be
asked about chopsticks, Nattou, wasabi, etc... If I see someone 
using chopsticks very well, I will thought that that person is
living in Japan or used chopsticks for a long time and it's all.
It's very unpleasant to be treated different even after so many
years...

It's very interesting, but usually "naive"things hurts more than
things made intentionally when those things happens continously,
in my opinion.


Kenji> Claude $@$5$s$O!"2?$+$b$C$HJL$N$3$H$r8@$C$F$k$h$&$J5$$,$9$k$s$G$9(J$@$1$I!"!"!"(J
Kenji> $@$A$g$C$HJ,$+$i$J$$$N$G!"!"!"!#(J


Well, I said about "How is a kind of impossible to ADAPT to one society
that thinks you should be different from them". I'm happy that there are
people understanding these problems.

ciao,
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