A teacher in Canada told a little girl not to eat rice with her hands.

Oh, the horror! Oh, the humanity!…or something.

Via PJ Media.

….Writing in “Today’s Parent,” Joshana Maharaj is outraged, I tell you, just outraged that some teacher somewhere in Canada told a little girl not to eat rice with her hands.

This prompted her to write about learning how to eat around the world, where using hands is acceptable and how the West is just racist by using utensils….

Recently, I chatted with someone who told me a story about her young niece, who goes to a prestigious preschool and was eating rice with her hands at lunchtime. The feedback her parents received was that this child needed to work on her table manners and use proper cutlery to eat. I immediately felt a rush of anger bubble up inside me when I heard this. The message that eating food with your hands is an unmannered way to eat is a real problem for me because it is dripping with the control and shame of colonization, which is particularly dangerous in an educational context. Suggesting that a child who eats with her hands has no manners is an echo of European colonial powers looking to tame the wildness out of the people they controlled. These European table manners were imposed on conquered people in an attempt to “civilize” them. It’s a damaging message about right and wrong ways to do things. It positions the technique as superior and the people who practise it as setters of the standard, leaving those with a different approach to eating with a status of inferiority. The idea of a single standard of acceptable table manners is just one of a host of strategies used to grow and promote racism. It’s a subtle message but one that is reinforced three times a day, every day, which makes it quite powerful….

Ok, yeah, whatever.

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  1. hoppyb20 says:

    Are chopsticks utensils?

  2. Pat_S says:

    If people’s cultures are to be respected then the customs of Canadian living are reasonable expectations when in Canada.

  3. Cynthia says:

    Why is it the “progressives” want to go back in time and live like cavemen? lol!
    I thank the Lord for civilization and for the occasional display of manners I see.

  4. Alain41 says:

    All Canada public school students have to speak English or French. Do the SJWs excuse that as not Colonialism because can’t have oodles of teachers for each student’s native language? It’s an even stronger impact.

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