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Watch this clip about table manners and answer this question.

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Where is it polite to make noises when you eat?

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In the West, at the beginning of a meal, the host often invites the guests to start eating.

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In the USA, the person who cooks or serves the meal tells you to enjoy.

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But in Korea, it's the dinner guests who say to the host,

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which means I will eat well in China the most respected person

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usually the oldest person at the table should start eating first then everybody

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else is allowed to eat the rules about how you eat vary depending on whether

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you eat with a knife and fork with chopsticks or with your hands they can

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be difficult to follow so it's best to ask someone who already knows in Britain

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you eat with your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right it's polite

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to keep the spikes of your fork face down, so even when you want to eat something difficult

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like peas, the polite thing to do is to balance them carefully on the back of your fork. In

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Chile it's polite to eat everything with a knife and fork, even french fries, burgers

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and pizza. In Ethiopia, individual plates are considered wasteful, so food is served

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from a large communal plate which everyone eats from, using their hands. In almost all

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All countries and cultures where people eat with their hands, you eat with your right

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hand only. The reason for this is that the right hand is considered more important than

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the left hand.

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In most western countries, eating everything on your plate is considered good manners,

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but in China, if you clear your plate, your host feels that she or he has to give you

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more food because an empty plate means you're still hungry. So if you don't want any more

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food, it's better to leave a little bit of food on your plate to show that you've finished

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eating making noises while you eat is often considered rude in western culture but in japan

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slurping soup and noodles straight from the bowl and making a noise shows that you're enjoying your

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meal belching or burping is considered very rude in the west but in china if you want to pay your

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host a compliment burping is the way to do it finally tipping in a restaurant is common and

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polite in many western countries and while it's becoming more and more common to tip in asia

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many people there think that receiving or getting a tip is like begging so if

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you're in a restaurant in Singapore or Japan for example check with the locals

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first to see if tipping is okay or not so what's the answer to the question in

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Japan slurping and in China belching