Filipino table etiquette punished at local school

[infested_ysy]

Hey, how does he cut through a meat using a fork and a spoon?

I actually found this really interesting, I had never seen anyone eating like that too, and I personally would like to see it Just curious.


I'd say there's nothing wrong if he wants to eat like that. I can't see any problems. And there are certain matters of education that isn't a matter for the school, but for the family.

o_O

Poke the meat on the plate and use the edge of the spoon to cut through the meat? It's not like the meat are rock solid that one must only use knife, you know.

I'm a Malaysian here, there's no specific culture that my family practise in eating habits. I may sometimes use fork and spoon to eat anything, or spoon and chopsticks (on a plate, yes), or solely chopsticks (scooping the rice/noodles out of the edge of the bowls into the mouth), or fork and knife.

[Shatterhand]

I dunno, I've eaten meat which was hard to cut even with a knife

[greg]

Turbulent is weird term to use here. The journalist should've just bluntly said eating really fast. A spoon and fork is very productive, you can definitely push down a plate of food in matter few seconds.

I think that this is probably the main reason why they said he was eating like a pig. He probably gorges himself, using the spoon as a shovel to feed his face and finish lunch so that he can go outside and play during recess. Possibly his mouth was close to the plate to cut down on the time it would take for his arm to move the spoon from the plate to his mouth. In any case, he probably was eating sloppier than he can get away with at home, and we weren't getting the whole story (as with most other news). Otherwise, the whole fork and spoon thing may have been overlooked. He may have very well been eating like a pig, even compared to common Filipino standards. I don't think I have to explain how kids behave differently at school than they do at home, since we were all guilty of this at some point. (And it goes both ways... some kids may be better behaved at school and get away with crap at home with too lenient parents.)

It looks like the reporter's bias wanted to spin the news article as a culturally insensitive Caucasian school being mean to a Filipino kid. I'm guilty of reacting the same way after reading this article, and I overlooked the word "turbulent" the first time through.

Japjac is right. When in Rome, do as. When you can't, you're out of luck. I told my mom to bring her own fork when she came to Japan for my wedding because she cannot eat with chopsticks to save her life. They don't ask you if you can use chopsticks. They just give them to you.

[roker]

I'm Filipino, and that is exactly how I eat, using both utensils in the manner described in the article.

I'm not filipino

but I'm from an immigrant family

and we eat that way too