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Name: Leon

The point is, which cultural notions of ettiquette do we accept and which do we not. In many cultures it is an expression of your happy contentment to let out a hearty ' burp' following a meal. In other cultures it is a clebration of general bonhomie to eat collectively from a huge platter, with everyone licking morseld off their fingers and inserting the same back into the central pile of food.

So what is the benchmark here? Is sitting stiffly at a table and using an assortment of knives and forks a sign of good global culture, but not belching or eating from the same plate? If so, it IS a very selective notion of what constitutes global culture.

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