Chopsticks make a good meal last longer! > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: cultural image perception > > > Even more perplexing then... :) > > Tom C. > > > > > >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: cultural image perception > >Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:29:01 -0400 > > > >They did use the spoon... > > > >Tom C wrote: > > > >>I know the popular story regarding chopsticks being an extension of the > >>fingers... Really though, I just can't understand why a culture > that used > >>shovels to move dirt efficiently couldn't relate that to the human > >>anatomy... I mean, if you want to dig a hole, do you go get two > poles and > >>manipulate them, picking up dirt between them. until the hole is dug? > >> > >>Tom C. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>Reply-To: [email protected] > >>>To: [email protected] > >>>Subject: Re: cultural image perception > >>>Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:46:14 -0400 > >>> > >>>I've seen it claimed that the Chinese actually invented the fork, just > >>>never adopted it as a table implement. Chopsticks worked well enough. > >>> > >>>Tom C wrote: > >>> > >>>>It may explain why they invented chopsticks... lack of > focus... whereas > >>>>the western world has a no-nonsense fork, knife, and spoon... > stab the > >>>>meat.. no slight intended... just always wondering... and > blathering... > >>>> > >>>>Somewhat interesting... > >>>> > >>>>http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0117/cu18-1.html > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Tom C. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>From: "Jim Colwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>>Reply-To: [email protected] > >>>>>To: "pdml" <[email protected]> > >>>>>Subject: Re: cultural image perception Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 > 18:25:44 > >>>>>-0300 > >>>>> > >>>>>Vic, thanks for the interesting link in "Mind the > Chinese...". I think > >>>>>that > >>>>>your post raises a wide range of cutural image perception > issues. For > >>>>>me, a > >>>>>line or series of elements with visual flow from the low > left to high > >>>>>right > >>>>>in an image has a dynamic and on-going quality, while a similar > >>>>>structure > >>>>>going from low right to high left seems regressive. Is this the same > >>>>>perception as one who reads from right to left ? Do others who read > >>>>>from > >>>>>left to right (as I do) have the up-and-to-the-right as > "positive", or > >>>>>is it > >>>>>a consequence of math graphs with +x,+y in the upper right quadrant ? > >>>>> > >>>>>Jim > >>>>>www.jcolwell.ca > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>-- > >>>When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream > and shout). > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >-- > >When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). > > > > >
