Is it normal that my parents judge me for eating noodles with chopsticks?

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With noodles I always eat them with chopsticks and my parents keep telling me stuff like " Chopsticks are for those chinks ", I got really angry when they told me that because I know that chopsticks can be used for anyone but they don't even let me, they went as far as locking the draws with chopsticks. They constantly judge me and it is to the point that I want to get out of my house. ( but thats probably a stupid reason. ), so should I talk it out with them?

Are they normal for doing this?

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    3 years ago

    use your fingers next time

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    • GarlicPotato
      3 years ago

      Not a good idea, try something normal, like eating noodles with chopsticks in your own house, never mind having to obey your parents in their house, they have the right to confiscate your chopsticks in their house and you have the right to confiscate their chopsticks in your house! :)

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    • Gabloo
      3 years ago

      Fucking awesome. Haha, I would pay to see that reaction

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  • thepuppet
    3 years ago

    thats not cool of them to say (and pretty racist tbh), but nothing worth getting too mad over

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  • Wryladradofft
    3 years ago

    It's kind of a petty thing for either side to get indignant about imo

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  • mouldiwarp
    3 years ago

    Who the fuck cares

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    • RoseIsabella
      3 years ago

      I do, because it's bad manners to have a racist attitude about chopsticks. I honestly can't eat Asian food without using chopsticks!

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      • mouldiwarp
        3 years ago

        No, I meant who cares about how you choose to eat. I was criticizing the parents.

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        • RoseIsabella
          3 years ago

          Right on!

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      • GaelicPotato
        3 years ago

        I never got the point of chopsticks. Sure its culturally accurate, but hella inconvenient too.

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        • mouldiwarp
          3 years ago

          China has had forks for a long time, chopsticks were invented to save money during a population boom; they take fewer resources to produce, are easy to dispose of or store for reuse (if you are using metal ones), and can be made easily and quickly. They were also the perfect size for picking up little pieces of food; cooks started cutting food into smaller chunks to cook since it was cheaper (used less fuel).

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          • GarlicPotato
            3 years ago

            The oil used in cooking is nothing but crude oil, in its extremities the oil could be extracted petrol with the flammability removed.

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          • GaelicPotato
            3 years ago

            That's actually really interesting.

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        • RoseIsabella
          3 years ago

          I LOVE chopsticks! I learned to use chopsticks when I was a little kid about the same age as when I was learning to use forks, and knives. My Dad had just came back from Vietnam, and he he taught me to use chopsticks, he would use chopsticks whenever we ate rice, which was all the time, because rice was a really big crop in Texas! I saw my dad using chopsticks, and I would want to do it too to be like him, so I got a lot of practice as a child.

          To be completely honest I have always had a strong aversion to eating Asian food without chopsticks, especially Chinese food, it just feels wrong to me!

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          • GaelicPotato
            3 years ago

            Okay but except feeling wrong which is subjective, what's the real benefit over forks, spoons and knives?

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            • RoseIsabella
              3 years ago

              I personally just enjoy eating Asian food in a more culturally authentic way.

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            • GarlicPotato
              3 years ago

              They're not normal for doing this, they should let you do what you want post maker (I'm deliberately comparing my name with GaelicPotato), what about you getting out of your parents house, start moving out? And as for you GaelicPotato I loved your name and I don't know who you are and what you do paid or unpaid, at home or in your spare time or with friends, family and even strangers. I think morals are objective and let's not forget just how much of a dickhead non-geniuses think I am even for just sitting down!

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  • mafioso
    3 years ago

    Seems like they are jealous, that you can manage to eat with them :D But for real, no that's not normal...

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  • LloydAsher
    3 years ago

    Chopsticks are a niche tool for a simpler time. Forks and knives and spoons, three tools. Perfect for any meal. Chopsticks are antiquated.

    Live in a new place if you want to eat with chopsticks. Petty reason to move out in my opinion.

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  • bbrown95
    3 years ago

    Their aversion to you using chopsticks to the point of them locking them away (and using racial slurs) seems very extreme to me. I mean, what is the big deal?

    I don't know that it would be a big enough deal to consider moving out over, especially if you're not in a good situation to, but it would be annoying and weird, for sure.

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  • GarlicPotato
    3 years ago

    This is what I think: I think I'm the one who's taking no nonsense from anyone, I don't fuck around, and I get things done, and it's not you doing these things, it's me! Therefore I follow the whole truth and tell it to you through my teeth, and as for cooking chicken for noodles, it's just well-cooked raw chicken cooked in peanut oil or any kind of rice oil (rice, rice bran for example) with hot, freshly cooked 3 minute noodles, two packets of them, which is boiled till tender and drained, and served hot with chicken, sauces and seasonings, and hasn't got the delicate, sweetish flavour of authentic oriental food, what you get say, in Borneo (nor do I know what it's like to eat out of a banana leaf in Borneo but I saw it in the movie "The Diamond Of Jeru"), and furthermore, stay with me here, if you're too smart even with what you eat people call you an idiot, without realising that your stupidity is unnatural, it's not an inborn trait!

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  • Divantes_wrld
    3 years ago

    It is clear they are racist.
    Use your fingers next time and throw the noodles at their face while calling them a slur to see their reaction. Maybe they'll learn not to be racist imbecile's.

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  • GeekyGold
    3 years ago

    I feel you. I have chopsticks too and when I use them my mother would say, “you should’ve been born Chinese.” She’s always pointing out that I am into Asian stuff and gets annoyed with it as if it’s a bad thing. I’m pretty sure she called my sister and I stupid once for watching a Korean horror show or called the show stupid just because it’s Korean. It’s one of those. Anyways. I usually fight with her on many things but stuff like this I don’t bother and just ignore it since my parents been judging me all my life. So I am used to it.

    Plus dumb fucks like her are so close minded nothing can get through to them, so why bother wasting my breath? My word of advise is don’t bother, most parents are so hard to talk to because they are so opinionated towards their kids. Just do you until you move out. Then you can tell them to fuck off and not deal with the consequences since you’re not living with them anymore.

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  • RoseIsabella
    3 years ago

    I'm grateful to God that I will never have to go out for phở with your parents!

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