You’d get branded “ignorant” at most if the tables were reversed and your ex thinking it’s “blatant racism” is way blown out of proportion in my opinion.
Try getting mocked by some random shit spawns in Europe pull their eyes back and yell ching chong Chang on the train during your family vacation lol.
Still, though, I get it. It’s pretty ignorant to assume white people can’t use chopsticks in the current millenium.
You are at a steak house and the Asian partner gets the steak pre-cut and served with chopsticks. Yeah, I’d guess that would be rather unpleasant.
On the other hand, I really dislike using chopsticks even though I can use them. But the Asian restaurants over here all just give you chopsticks by default (no matter what you look like) and I always have to ask for fork and knife, and that’s also kinda annoying. I guess, the restaurants have to make some kind of assumption if they don’t want to serve double the amount of cutlery, and no matter what assumption they make it will be wrong in about 50% of the cases.
Yeah, it’s kinda annoying at most, and I usually take it as them just trying to accommodate to my needs. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with OP, but more with his ex’s reaction. “Blatant racism?” C’mon.
You’d get branded “ignorant” at most if the tables were reversed and your ex thinking it’s “blatant racism” is way blown out of proportion in my opinion.
Try getting mocked by some random shit spawns in Europe pull their eyes back and yell ching chong Chang on the train during your family vacation lol.
Still, though, I get it. It’s pretty ignorant to assume white people can’t use chopsticks in the current millenium.
Trying to construct a reverse situation:
You are at a steak house and the Asian partner gets the steak pre-cut and served with chopsticks. Yeah, I’d guess that would be rather unpleasant.
On the other hand, I really dislike using chopsticks even though I can use them. But the Asian restaurants over here all just give you chopsticks by default (no matter what you look like) and I always have to ask for fork and knife, and that’s also kinda annoying. I guess, the restaurants have to make some kind of assumption if they don’t want to serve double the amount of cutlery, and no matter what assumption they make it will be wrong in about 50% of the cases.
Yeah, it’s kinda annoying at most, and I usually take it as them just trying to accommodate to my needs. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with OP, but more with his ex’s reaction. “Blatant racism?” C’mon.