Eating with your hands is one of the subjects I cover in the book. What would be frowned on in Finland is de rigueur in India. I recently found this take on the subject ...
http://www.indax.com/eating.html
Going Dutch in Beijing by Mark McCrum
The book is a lighthearted guide to manners, attitudes and customs around the world. Why shouldn’t you offer to split the bill in China, blow your nose in a handkerchief in Japan or make the ‘thumbs-up’ sign in Iran? The often surprising answers are all here. This website is the interactive bit. Feel free to join in with comments on these stories or up to date intercultural insights of your own...
About Me
- mark mccrum
- Mark McCrum has visited six of the seven continents (not Antarctica) and written travel books about Southern Africa, Australia and Ireland. He has been mugged in Rio, picknicked on a glacier in Chilean Patagonia and has lunched with the King of the Zulus (a strict teetotaller whose manners were impeccable). He lives in London, where people love to queue.
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