> Most of these are common sense.

A lot of them are not common sense at all. Even the 'serious' ones require cultural knowledge to understand. Only a subset of the rest would be un-ideal across cultures, which is what I would use to measure 'common sense'.

It's like how in some asian cultures it's rude to bring the bowl closer to you by lifting it off the table, and in others it's the opposite. And of course there's some just-so story for why, that seems to make sense if you don't know about the opposing just-so story.

Things like that aren't what I'd call common sense.

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morkalork 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A bunch of the common sense ones, like not pointing at someone with your ustensiles, are the same in western etiquette.

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Sprotch 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not western etiquette and makes no sense to me

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ahhhhnoooo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Using your fork, knife, or spoon to point at a person is absolutely considered rude. Gesturing with utensils likewise (because you can shower others with cast off detritus.)

A quick Google search will turn up hundreds of results corroborating this.

	▲	nayroclade an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Or just consider the “asshole dinner guest” trope that appears in so many TV shows and movies. They will always be talking too loudly and gesticulating/pointing with their cutlery.