FINGERS BEFORE FORKS
According to an American computation, not more than a third of the people in the world eat with a knife and fork. Another third use chopsticks. The remaining third eat with their fingers. It is certainly true about the first third, for all the white people of the world number les3 than a third, and
few of the coloured folk use knives and forks. As to the second third, the users of chopsticks do not amount to a third; probably numbering, in China, Japan, and Korea, about a fourth of the world's population, so that the folk who still eat with the fingers amount to over a third, or say 850,000,000 to 900,000,000. It is an interesting analysis, for it reminds us how primitive still are the habits of a very great part of mankind, and what tremendous changes have yet to take place.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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