There's equally complex dining and utensils etiquette in Western culture but it's largely omitted (or even unknown) on daily basis.

▲ chasil 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette

Edit: The wiki on chopsticks has an etiquette section broken down by country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks#Chopstick_customs,_...

▲ 3eb7988a1663 2 hours ago | parent [-]

  The difference between the American and European styles has been used as plot point in fictional works, including the 1946 film O.S.S. and the 2014 series Turn: Washington's Spies.[5] In both works, using the wrong fork etiquette threatens to expose undercover agents.

Nuts. Apparently I have been a German spy all this time. I don't have time to waste swapping a fork around.

▲ laughing_man an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes! Hardly anyone knows it all, and even people who know the basics adjust their behavior based on the situation. Eating out with your high school buddies requires a different level of observance than the dinner at which your girlfriend is introducing you to her parents.

▲ maxerickson an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

That's not really a coherent statement.

If people don't even know it, it's not part of the culture.

	▲	shermantanktop 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Who are the “people” that you are referring to? This makes total sense to me. There is no monolithic “culture”— there are multiple related cultures, differing little in essence but differing greatly in the details. And each individual is usually only partially ignorant anyway. Culture changes, too, and asymmetrically. So the “done thing” may be done be very few anymore.