I was reading this article in BusinessWeek about 'Young and Impatient's in India
Quite nicely written and all that and then this:

"Veena Parashuram is one of this new generation of Indian women. The 26-year-old engineer grew up in a village so primitive that she never used a spoon, fork, or napkin until she went away to boarding school at age 10."



I exploded at my cubicle.
'WTHECK??"""

And was trying to explain to a colleague why this statement irked me so.

What I meant to say was this:
The writer has placed a progressive stamp on the ability of people to use spoons, forks and napkins.
It is as if he was charting the culinary Darwinian chart
First humans ate with hands,
then with chopsticks
and finally evolved to learning to eat with spoons, forks and napkins.
Instead of accepting the fact that different cultures have created different methods of eating and enjoying their food - none of them higher or lower than the other.
The statement is extremely ethnocentric and quite disturbing to find in a Business Week senior writer. I expected less bias.

But what I actually said was this:

OH. THE FRACKING IMPERIALIST MORON.
HOW STUPID CAN THIS IDIOT BE?????
SO WHAT NOT USING FORKS AND KNIVES MEANS WE, AS INDIANS, ARE STILL HANGING FROM THE TREES?????
WHAT FRACKING NERVE - ETHNOCENTRIC BUFFOON

sigh.
i did so have a valid point.