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Reminds me of a date with an Asian X, to a Chinese restaurant. We get seated, waitress comes by with chopsticks for my date, knife and fork for me. I shrugged, but my X went and got chopsticks from the waiting station for me cause she was pissed off at the blatant racism. I admit if the races were swapped, it'd likely get branded something like a 'micro-aggression' of racism I guess? idk.
But there are quite a few places where white folks get that sorta thing, its almost always quite benign.
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.
that shit is so annoying. It happened to me once when I ate on my own in chinatown. MF why assume?
Meanwhile, my whiter than Casper the friendly ghost ass carries around a pair of stainless steel smooth Japanese chopsticks. I carry the Japanese ones, as the Chinese ones are longer. If such a situation were to happen to me, I just pull out my chopsticks.
Side note: I have been told by many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people that apparently I could make good money as an extra in their TV/Movie industry, because I eat with chopsticks so well.