Question

What are a few things considered EXTREMELY ruse in Japanese and Chinese culture? I'm doing an essay on the two and have to show the differences in offences.

Answer 1

do you mean "rude"?

Answer 2

which aspects you would like to know?

Answer 3

How about while have dinner with a guest or a guests and their family. I'm trying to focus more on the food aspect of the cultures for now until my paper broadens so how about that :3?

Answer 4

for example,
1 never stick your chopsticks in the food especially rice, because it's more comment that foreigners would stick the chops in the rice, which is more possible to make your chops stand.
This is because the food with chops sticking on is set for ancestors or spirits without family worshiping them.(When in some special days, Chinese people would set food and paper money for Gods, ancestors or wandering spirits )

Answer 5

2 if more traditionally, you can't seat yourself wherever you want when dinig, because you have to sit under the order of seniority.

Answer 6

sorry, i meant "dining" in ex2

Answer 7

3
you don't sit down nor start eating if the older people haven't sit or started eating yet.

Answer 8

4 you can't pick food in the public plates, pots or any containers.
I mean do you know how traditional Chinese meals are served?
The food are served in the middle of the table, and you have to use public spoons and chopsticks to send the food into your own bowl.
For instance, Chinese onions are common in the plates but people don't eat it mostly. In the process of getting yourselves food, you can't just shake it away or something, you have to get it away after you've put back the public chops, sit down, and ready to eat.

Answer 9

Those above are Chinese table manners and Japanese have a lot in common.
Do you think my examples above help you?
What else do you think of? you can tell me some specific ones that you wanna know more.
Or any information you've found on the Net and you're not very clear with it?

Answer 10

Usually it's ok to enter the cooking space or fridge in American home because we have the "my house is your house " mentality. However, this is pretty rude in an Asian household and if you tried to get your own food, help set the table, wash dishes or serve others in a house that isn't yours then you may be viewed as very offensive.


Also, if asking a toast. Please lower your glass way lower then the people paying, elders and or more admirable people in the room. By doing this, your basically completing them silently and expressing respect, humility and admiration.