On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 09:15 AM 6/3/2008, Shane Mage wrote:
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>> What is so "profoundly" different about my appetite when eating with
>> knife and fork in a European restaurant
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> Eating with knife and fork is key to what Norbert Elias called the
> civilizing process.
So the Chinese are, and always have been, uncivilized?