What do you think about foreigners not sharing food when they eat?

Different regions and different countries have different customs and eating habits, and we should not comment on others because their habits are different from our own, but we must respect the eating habits of others.

Foreigners eat a portion of each person's meal, eat their own, unlike our country where everyone eats a big pot of rice together, share with each other, you add a dish to me and I share a cake with you, in our opinion, this is a very accustomed thing, this kind of scene is often staged in our dormitory, every time we buy a meal, everyone sits together, you eat my food and I taste your noodles, every day when we eat, our dormitory will be very lively, others will say that our dormitory is particularly humane, This seems to us to be a common thing, but foreigners are not used to it.

Maybe in our opinion, foreigners don't share when they eat seems very selfish and impersonal, and they feel that they will lose the fun of eating, and good things are meant to be shared by everyone, but foreigners have their own reasons, maybe they feel that this is very unhygienic, as if they are eating each other's saliva, or they are used to eating quietly when they eat, and they don't like everyone together. They want to enjoy their food in peace.

In our China, eating is to make everyone happy together, everyone is used to contact feelings at the table, share their own food at the table, so when we see foreigners eating steak silently in the Western restaurant, as if we don't know each other, we will be very unaccustomed, but this is the habit of people eating, we can't say that people eat like this is wrong or bad.

Therefore, we must respect the eating habits of foreigners, and we must not impose our habits on others, or we cannot demand our standards from others.

If you want to say that foreigners do not share food when eating, I think it should be the custom of 818 Chinese to eat, use chopsticks, and share the food on everyone's plate.

In fact, from the matter of eating, it can be very obvious to reflect the unique inferiority of the Chinese and the Chinese nation.

You have me, I have you, what's yours is mine, what's mine is still mine.

To put it simply, we make a plate or plates of food, and then everyone holds a chopstick from it, and you have my saliva in your mouth, and your saliva in my mouth, so that we don't distinguish each other.

In fact, to be honest, this is a very simple manifestation of the inferior nature of the Chinese, we do not respect everyone's privacy, and the Chinese use chopsticks as a metaphor for each of us to be distorted and nurtured under the premise of this moral society.

Just think about it, isn't this the psychology of Chinese when sharing food? You want to taste what I like, if you don't eat it, it means you don't like me, if you eat it, it means that you are obedient to me, and I understand what you like to eat, so my narcissism is satisfied, and my heart is very happy?

If we analyze the eating habits of Chinese people from this perspective, and then look at foreigners, you will find that the taboo of Western society for sharing food actually has its reason.

For the big society of the West, since the emergence of humanism.

Thoughts, in fact, rarely see the customs and etiquette, there is the act of eating by dividing meals. There is a concept that Chinese have ignored in the West for a long time, called boundaries, that is, I have my privacy, I have my boundaries, and my boundaries cannot be violated by others, this is my boundary, through their dining habits, everyone has the right to self-choice, but we can have more communication, we can communicate deeper things on the basis of mutual respect, this is one of the cultural ideas of Westerners.

In fact, from the perspective of foreigners, when they go to see Orientals, they will also feel that this is an incredible thing. Because they will feel that only intimate people should be able to share saliva, share meals, and it should be a very private act. When I went to study abroad, I only saw them eating barbecue buffet barbecue, there was the behavior of everyone cutting the meat into a small plate, as long as they entered the regular restaurant, all of them sat down, everyone ordered a single order, each ordered their own, you can ask not to eat a certain dish, but others will not touch your things.

In short, if you don't manage, don't understand, accept or don't accept, and respect such cultural differences, this is our wonderful earth.

The main reason is that foreigners and our Chinese lifestyle is different, foreigners habitually eat steak, sandwiches and other types of food, then they are all one by one, each person only eats one, there are no few people eat one, and our Chinese eating habits are all a table of dishes, everyone takes a bowl of rice, around the table to eat.

At the same time, in the face of elders and young children, we will serve food for the elders in order to respect the elders, and serve dishes for him, and the children do not know how to use chopsticks when they are particularly young, and there are adults to take care of them, so in order to take care of the children, they will also pick up the dishes for her.

Several people eat the same bowl of dishes, which is equivalent to sharing, in China there is almost no family one person one bowl of rice and one bowl of dishes, in short, friends around me and their families, as well as in my family, are also a family around a table to pick up dishes, especially Chinese prefer to eat hot pot.

And when eating hot pot, if it is a person who seems very monotonous and boring, only a group of people around eating, that kind of atmosphere is what we like, but foreigners are different, their restaurants pay attention to quiet, our Chinese restaurants pay attention to lively, which is why many Chinese like to eat roadside stalls.

Even now, some things have to be eaten to taste, so in our hearts we feel that sharing is also a kind of happiness, and foreigners think differently from us, what they have eaten since childhood is different from ours, their things need to be eaten independently, there is no I share it with you and you share it with me.

Just like us Chinese enter Western food, even if the dishes we order are staple foods, we all order our own portion, and we can order whatever we want, and when we eat in Chinese restaurants, if the host does wine, he will not ask other guests what they want to eat, they all order the signature dishes of the restaurant.

One serving of each, and then each guest has one chopstick, this is the sharing of Chinese when eating, so the sharing that foreigners do not understand when eating is not their fault, I think it is just that our living habits are different, everyone and each country have their different lifestyles, I am not qualified to judge their lifestyles.

Because we live in different places, so I think their way of life is not bad, indeed each of us eats our own things, it will appear cleaner, and it will also make the environment appear very quiet, but after all, I am a Chinese, so this way of life is not suitable for me.

After all, I'm used to sharing at the dinner table in China, so if you want to talk about how to look at this matter, then it lies in our different living habits, they have their own fun, they have their rules, and they are also rules that deserve our respect.

I don't know whether it is due to regional cultural differences or racial differences, Chinese and foreigners, especially Westerners, have a worlds of difference in terms of thinking and living habits, although it is not possible to completely judge who is wrong and who is right, but it is always a topic worth studying and **.

Let's take the differences in food culture between China and the West. Whether Chinese are family gatherings or banquets for friends, they eat table meals, what they want is for everyone to sit around the table and be lively, you give me vegetables, I will give you the heat of soup, as if only in this way can it be called a real meal.

However, foreigners are the opposite of us, no matter how close they are, they will not share food with others, but each person orders the Western food they want to eat and puts it in front of them, and there will never be such an act of serving food to each other. And I don't like to talk about special things during dinner, and I don't talk about business at the table, but eat a meal quietly.

In the eyes of us Chinese, this way of eating in the West will seem particularly cold and impersonal, and everyone is a lonely individual. I think the difference in the way of eating is probably due to the difference between Chinese and Western cultures. Chinese have a particularly strong concept of home, and parents will definitely feed such things to their children when they eat from an early age, because they feel that this is the best thing that must be left to their children; Foreigners are independent from an early age, and even parents cannot impose what they like to eat on their children, and once they grow up, they have the right to choose what they want to eat.

In fact, in addition to not sharing food, I still prefer the practice of foreigners not sharing food, because this is indeed more hygienic, unlike Chinese who don't even use chopsticks to pick up vegetables for others, which is really too high a probability of infectious diseases; Second, the dishes sandwiched by others may not be what they like to eat, but it is really a painful thing to have to eat because of their feelings.

It's good to look at it with a normal mind and don't care too much. After all, the way of thinking of foreigners is different from the way of thinking of us Chinese. They are more self-conscious, and it is normal for them to have some cultural differences.

Of course, maybe they don't accept such sharing, it doesn't mean that they don't know how to share and are not polite, it's just because they haven't had such thinking since childhood, Chinese like to eat and enthusiastically serve others with food, persuade wine, etc., which is made by Chinese customs, but for foreigners, they do not accept. For example, foreigners eat with a set of knives and forks and cutlery, while Chinese eat the same dishes together. There are also foreign countries advocating the AA system (of course, it is gradually accepted in China now), this is because of the fairness mentality they have formed, not that the relationship is bad, and they are willing to pay for meals together.

Therefore, we should understand each other and not pay too much attention to cultural differences.

Some people will say that some foreigners will share, but I can only say that some situations cannot be generalized after all. Not sharing food when eating, in fact, is also a very healthy behavior, because many people share food during meals are easy to spread infectious bacteria, so look at foreigners do not share food when eating do not need to be too serious, empathy, international friends may think how Chinese can be so enthusiastic, why must eat when sharing food. Expressing closeness doesn't have to be in this way to understand each other's cultures and tolerate each other's differences, so that they can communicate better.

Don't pay too much attention to these small details, appropriately change your role, or think in many ways, don't be bothered, foreigners' thinking is relatively straight, unlike the scattered euphemism of the Chinese, just do your own good, after all, others do not share food does not affect their own eating.

This is influenced by the living environment and habits. We're not used to seeing them not sharing food. I guess they still don't like us, and will think that our behavior of sharing food is unhygienic and unhealthy?

The geographical environment is different, the civilization formed is also different, the natural culture is also different for different civilizations, and the living habits are naturally different. A lot of times, we don't have to take it too seriously. If you really want to be more serious.

Then the difference between the north and the south is quite big, and the living habits are also different. <>

In the north, meat is bought with a fan, while the south buys little by little, and the northerners buy greens in bundles, while the southerners buy greens only on the basis of a piece, and the northerners buy cabbage and radishes in large bags or cars, while the southerners only buy half a piece. Northerners put a lot of meat in it when stir-frying, while Southerners just cut it into a few slices and put it in. Northerners eat with sea bowls, southerners just use that kind of small and delicate bowl, and northerners eat is a general term for rice noodles or vegetables.

And the southerners eat just simple white rice. Nothing else. <>

As a northerner, can you say that southerners are not atmospheric? No, as a southerner, can you say that northerners behave intimidatingly? Obviously, it can't, because the different geographical environments make their cultures different from each other.

Because the northern winters are cold and dry. There are no vegetables, just radishes and cabbage in winter. I actually need to store more, the south is relatively warm.

You can also eat other dishes, and you don't need to store as much as the northerners.

Although it is said that it will surprise the other party's culture. But we understand and respect each other, after all, different living habits and different ideas, so many Westerners also say. It's really hard to accept that our practice of sharing food is that they have always been educated and cultured.

Everyone is an individual, and there are some things that cannot be shared with each other. But we're different! We are taught to have good things to share, to learn to share.

For us, we think that only when everyone sits down to eat together will it be more lively, because more people will be more lively and more atmosphere, so we have a wine table culture. It's not a positive word or a derogatory word, it seems to me that it's just a neutral word. We share good things with each other.

In this way, we can appear closer. to make it seem that we have a better relationship. <>

But for those foreigners, many people eat food on a plate, which is unhygienic and unclean! They feel that it is more hygienic to eat the food alone, and it is difficult for them to bear it if they share it with others! They also don't understand why we share the same dish with so many of us.

So it's just a difference in living habits, but it's not really different, as long as everyone understands each other. There's no need to dwell on these issues.