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A debate on the "way to hold chopsticks" was trending on Twitter in the afternoon of June 14th.
Neuroscientist Mogi Ken commented:
"I've never paid attention to how other people hold their chopsticks unless they're holding it very strangely. I feel that I hold my chopsticks properly but I'm not confident [that I actually do] (lol) To begin with, is there only one correct way to hold chopsticks? Who decided it? If I had to say, if it's easy for a certain person [to hold it that way], then it's fine."
His tweet received replies of agreement. Some were of the opinion that as people have different hand shapes, it was okay for people to hold their chopsticks differently. However, there were also some who pointed out that when people hold their chopsticks in a peculiar way, people would unnecessarily judge their upbringing, which will put them at a disadvantage.
There appeared to be many people who thought that because you don't lose anything from holding chopsticks correctly, chopsticks should be held correctly. People also commented, "It's easy to fix once you realise."
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But when a person holds their chopsticks too weirdly, it's unsightly.
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It's talking about this, right?
My daughter's elementary school teacher told her, "You hold your chopsticks weird. No one will marry you" so this mother has been heated up since this morning ♡
In the first place, she doesn't have to marry someone who says, "You hold your chopsticks weird so I don't want to marry you," or rather, the person who will choose who my daughter will marry is my daughter herself. The age where women are "chosen" by men is already over, so haaaah??
Second Tweet:
Concerning discipline and etiquette, besides the things that will "make the other person feel uncomfortable" my family do not consider anything else important.
They're not going out into society anyway.
Conversely, I think that you just don't have to associate with people who judge you by the way you hold your chopsticks. I hate the word "discipline". Some parents might be scared that people will say that they "don't know how to discipline their children" but—
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>>3
This person makes me feel uncomfortable.
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>>3
Feel sorry for the daughter, the daughter is the one who will have a hard time in the future.
This would be what you call a toxic parent, right?
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>>3
This is a toxic parent.
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>>3
You know, the other person has the right to choose too, though lol
>>3
This person makes me feel uncomfortable.
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>>3
Feel sorry for the daughter, the daughter is the one who will have a hard time in the future.
This would be what you call a toxic parent, right?
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>>3
This is a toxic parent.
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>>3
You know, the other person has the right to choose too, though lol
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Just because it's easy, you still shouldn't, for example, hold your chopsticks like a walking stick.
*Reference
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If the person doesn't care about what others think about them, then let them hold it however they like.
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I'll be put off, to be honest.
Even if it's a beautiful woman, when she has an ugly way of holding chopsticks, she will seem like a disappointment.
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Well, but when I see people clutching their chopsticks in a fist, I think, urgh...
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There are quite a lot of people who hold their chopsticks "very strangely"
Holding it in a cross, etc...
To put it bluntly, it's an eyesore.
*Reference
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Shut up, tax evasion criminal!
*Mogi Ken was charged for tax evasion in 2009
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I guess the word egotistic is used to describe this sort of person.
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There are people who hold chopsticks like a pencil, right...
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She'll look like she's stupid, are you fine with that?
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My older sister holds her chopsticks weird but she managed to get married.
Seems like how you hold your chopsticks has nothing to do with it.
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People can do what they want but when you see someone like Matsuzaka Tori, who obviously has a weird way of holding chopsticks, it's a bit...
*Related post here.
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Will you still be able to say the same thing in front of Kuwa-man?
*Nobuyoshi Kuwano - see number 37 for image.
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But when someone holds their chopsticks strangely, there's actually a lot of people who will point it out and say stuff about it.
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When I see people holding chopsticks in a weird way, it's unpleasant.
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People who don't care can do what they want of course, but there are also people who will conclude that someone has a bad upbringing based on that.
Both are a person's individual freedom.
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People who speak out and warn them are actually kind.
Normally people would just keep their thoughts to themselves while assuming that the person is "that" sort of person.
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People who have a strange way of holding chopsticks also have a strange way of eating. Like pulling a bowl over with their chopsticks or eating with one arm raised. Excluding the people who can't hold their chopsticks well because of physical reasons.
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Japan is a country that conforms with rules of propriety so...
It's a cultural thing.
Perhaps it would be easier for them to eat with a utensil other than chopsticks?
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I won't say it aloud, but inside I will be thinking, Whoa...
If you're fine with that, please go ahead.
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The pretty way of using chopsticks is perfected, efficient, and beautiful.
It is true that it is strange to judge a person's nature with just that but even so, it is strange to say that the way someone holds their chopsticks is not worth worrying about.
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This looks disgraceful no matter what angle I look at it from though...?
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It would be fine if it's the mother being put through an unpleasant experience but in the end it's the daughter who is being made fun of, and the daughter who will feel embarrassed. Yet what is this woman saying?.
She's also only retweeting the people who agree with her.
Plus, she's saying stuff like, I'm happily raising my daughter, but her profile says she's leaving the child-rearing to her husband lol
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