Feel bad story of the day: In Canada, you must eat like a whitey

[HockeyPuck]

Wow...

That lunch monitor should be sent to one of my family gatherings - she would have a heart attack when she sees us doing away with utensils and start eating with our fingers...

We're worse than "pigs", we're barbarians!

[HOZ]

According to a schoolboard source, Luc had been eating slowly that day. The lunch monitor warned him that there were only five minutes left to finish his meal. In response, Luc began shovelling food into his mouth, alternating with his spoon and his fork. He dribbled food and the other children laughed.
That's when he was moved to a different table.

Seriously, this looks like something way other than it does. Sometimes kids eat slowly and when they are told to hurry it along....they start shovelling. IE...Eating like pigs.

"When I approached the (monitor) the following day she didn't mention that to me at all," Cagadoc said. "If she had told me something like this ... I would have reacted differently."

Kids hold it in. My questions would be how did this get out of the school? Why didn't the parents or the school contact eachother? And if they did how did it get to this point?

Massive misunderstanding here!!!

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by HOZ

According to a schoolboard source, Luc had been eating slowly that day. The lunch monitor warned him that there were only five minutes left to finish his meal. In response, Luc began shovelling food into his mouth, alternating with his spoon and his fork. He dribbled food and the other children laughed.
That's when he was moved to a different table.

Seriously, this looks like something way other than it does. Sometimes kids eat slowly and when they are told to hurry it along....they start shovelling. IE...Eating like pigs.

It looks to me more like someone's trying to come up with a story to explain their comments. This story only comes out after the mother has already talked to the school and after there's a big uproar?

It sounds like damage control.

[J pold]

Although I am a big proponent of table manners, If another Culture has a different means of eating there food than that’s fine and its no ones place to tell them what’s wrong or right, people who feel the need to tell some one that You are in Canada you should eat like a Canadian are just ignorant and completely ethnocentric

This story is similar to one that a girl told in my sociology class, before she was born her parents moved to Canada form Nigeria in the 2nd grade her teacher was telling the class about table manners and the proper way to eat, this girl from Nigeria told the teacher that in Nigeria everyone eats with their hands, the teacher told her that, "that kind of Behavior is savage" the worst problem is that people like that don't think that they are racist at all, but subconsciously they think that our Canadian culture is superior to any other and that is racism

[calculoso]

Some of it is pure manners.

Take a co-worker of mine. He never chews with his mouth closed. I totally hate it when he eats and I'm in the vicinity.

If you decide to eat a little differently (chop sticks, hands, etc) then fine, but I don't want to hear you chewing all the time.

[NuclearFart]

This reminds me of good ol' U of C Mac Hall and those guys who worked at Kobe Beef...whenever they sat down to eat, it would be a horrific orgy of sights and sounds. Mouths wide open, food/drool falling out, rotting dentition, slurping/grunting noises....etc.

As a spectator, the complete loss of appetite served many young females well in their quest to be skinny.
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[rubecube]

One of my biggest pet peeves are people who eat noisily/chew with their mouths open.

[ken0042]

When I was growing up one of my best friends was Chinese. (In fact, I'm pretty sure he still is. ) One time our parents decided the families should get together, so we took turns having the whole family over for dinner. At my buddy's house we had traditional Chinese food; which meant a bowl that you would hold up above the table and eat from. My mom smacked me and told me to watch my manners; when she noticed that everybody else in his family was eating the same way. (I had been over to his house for dinner several times at that point.)

I suppose if you aren't aware of other cultures, it may seem odd. But I think in this case the teacher went a little overboard.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by rubecube

One of my biggest pet peeves are people who eat noisily/chew with their mouths open.

Well in many asian cultures eating noisily is a sign of respect for the cook.
Evern eaten noodles with Japanese people?
They think it's rude to be so quite, and you might think it's rude to be so noisy.

[theJuice]

Damn, must have been quite embarrasing for the kid.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Well in many asian cultures eating noisily is a sign of respect for the cook.
Evern eaten noodles with Japanese people?
They think it's rude to be so quite, and you might think it's rude to be so noisy.

I didn't say it was rude. I said it's irritating, and I wasn't speaking about any specific type of person.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by rubecube

I didn't say it was rude. I said it's irritating, and I wasn't speaking about any specific type of person.

Oh, I realize that, and I wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything. I only quoted you as a means of pointing out that what's rude or irritating to one person may be perfectly acceptable to someone else. Which is kind of where this whole problem with the kid came from. Didn't mean to offend you, and if I did my bad.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Oh, I realize that, and I wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything. I only quoted you as a means of pointing out that what's rude or irritating to one person may be perfectly acceptable to someone else. Which is kind of where this whole problem with the kid came from. Didn't mean to offend you, and if I did my bad.

Yeah, it's all good. I've been labelled a sexist and a racist already on here so I may be getting a little sensitive.

[HelloHockeyFans]

I think it's all perspective, and fear of the unknown.

My grandfather used to say to me that he found how westerner's ate steak extremely disgusting because they cut up their meat at the table, where as Chinese people would have the steak pre-cut into bite-sized pieces.

[Ironhorse]

Just read the whole thread, and there are some good comments. But we should also remember that when in Rome, do as the Romans do. If you are a new member of Canada, you should also bring some respect for the current inhabitants.

I have worked with people who brought Couscous in for lunch, but ate it with a fork in the lunch room, even though I'm fairly certain their culture allows them to eat it with their fingers.

However, calling an other culture "savages" or "pagan" for their traditional eating habits is way out of line. This could have been handled a lot better from the sounds of it.

[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Yeah, it's all good. I've been labelled a sexist and a racist already on here so I may be getting a little sensitive.

But has anybody called you a rube yet?

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

But has anybody called you a rube yet?

Just my friends

[Rifleman]

I wonder what that lady would think about Japanese people who eat food off a naked woman, or Germans who eat...feces!

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by fotze

Were those the guys who used to say:

"Sauce? Thankyouuuuuu. Sauce? Thankyouuuuuu. Sauce? Thankyouuuuu".

lol yeah, they're not your cousins or something I hope. I wonder if they are still there, as this was a few years back now.

...And O those crazy germans and their scheisser pornogeschaf!
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[ken0042]

Thanks Fotze.