Oprah to India: You still eat with your hands? o0

[Frankster]

-Telling the eldest daughter whose dream is to go study in england that she should go to america instead cos "its the best" (insert america fuck yeah song here).

there's something funny about you bringing that up while butchering the English language. I'm not a grammar nazi and I mean no offense, but still.

I can go back and correct my mistakes right down to capitalizing I in "I" and correcting things like cos=because but to do so would be to betray the artistic integrity of my original post.

No offence taken, but i do think you're a tad over dramatic if my op is "butchering" the english language in your eyes

 

[Navvan]

Ah Oprah I never understood why she became so popular. I don't actively dislike her or anything, and I'm fairly sure this whole incident is fairly overblown, but I just never understood what was so appealing about her show and related franchise. Except for the chance at winning a free car for being a part of the audience, but that only started to happen after she built up her franchise.

Also even Americans eat with there hands on a regular basis. Everyone does as that is one of their primary functions. If your hand directly touches the food it is the same thing.

I've ranted before about how we don't need cutlery. Usually drunk, to my friends.

What food can't be eaten without cutlery?

Soup, rice, mashed potatoes, lentils, applesauce, ice cream, custard, pudding, mousse, jello, minced meat, beans, eggs, porridge, breakfast cereal, yoghurt... all things which would be much harder to eat without some kind of utensil.

God bless forks, spoons and the USA.

You can eat all of those very easily without utensils. I personally wouldn't want to eat breakfast cereal or ice cream without utensils, but I'd be perfectly fine eating the rest. I regularly eat apple sauce and yogurt without utensils in fact. I would also eat custard that way if I ate it regularly.

 

[Stryc9]

Does anyone else think that maybe she's not quite as much of a culturally insensitive **** as the article would lead you to believe but instead being the showman that she is giving her target audience exactly what they want to see?

Remember that her target audience is middle-aged suburban middle class housewives who probably have very little exposure to other cultures outside of what they see on TV and in movies or read about in books or things they've heard from their other middle class soccer mom friends. Maybe they've heard on the news about how poor a large segment of the population in India is, and now here comes Oprah to reinforce that by tearing down a poor Indian family and now by proxy these people get to feel better about themselves because they're not poor like that. Then it's "Oh look! These people don't use silverware like normal people! How funny and quaint!" again leading to that satisfying feeling of superiority because here in America we have our high tech silverware for eating food.

Oprah is still a *****, because since at least the mid 90's she's been throwing fuel on the panic fires of just about every bullshit panic issue the media had dug up or invented for the sake of ratings and the fact that she gives people shit on her show and donates money to charity doesn't automatically make her a good person, especially when she rambles on about it on TV all the time.

Remember that stunt she pulled a few years ago where she gave a bunch of people in the crowd cars? Anyone else also remember that most of those people didn't get to keep those cars because the IRS expected them to pay income tax on the value of the car?

Who else thinks Oprah knew that was going to happen and was just hoping the news media would keep quiet and she'd get to look like an awesome person for giving a bunch of people that couldn't otherwise afford a new car all new cars? Or if it did get reported on the news which it did to some extent that the IRS would get made out to look like the bad guys for keeping those poor people down by not letting them have those cars.

 

[Lilani]

Well...yes? Not sure where I said they needed to be American, in fact I was pointing out the ignorance of someone clearly living in her own little bubble, where her ways are the best and we all need to fall in line. Obviously it's a cultural thing that goes without saying but they don't just do it for no other purpose than that. They have a reason which is: It's more hygienic, especially in a place like India. Try eating with the wrong hand over there and people will almost puke from how disgusting you're being.

Also, 10,000 years? I think you're overshooting just a little bit buddy.

Protip: When you live in and have grown up in a place with bacteria-filled water, you can pretty much handle most of what the running water's got. Compared to outsiders, anyway.

Also, humans have been in southern Asia for approximately 30,000 years. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#Ancient_India]

 

[Kahunaburger]

Ice cream...

...
Uh, yeah! Yeah, nobody eats Ice Cream with their hands--...heh, nobody...
I WAS JUST GOING TO GET A SPOON, HONEST! :C

I eat ice cream with my hands all the time

 

[DugMachine]

Shoulda given em some of her gigantic fortune if she's so damn concerned. Eating with hands really? I'm eating a damn hot pocket right now!

 

[Vivi22]

So basically, Oprah is an idiot and said something stupid. How is this any different than what she's been doing for years?

 

[Shoggoth2588]

It depends on the food, but I tend to eat most food with my hands.

Also this is the only Oprah-related thing I know of.

I love that give and raise you with this image from Amazons Attack:

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She comes off as an opinionated ***** based on that alone. Then again she would have to be opinionated to have had a TV talk show for so many decades and I shouldn't be too harsh towards her since her legion of fans would likely murder me if I were to criticize the woman. As for how often I eat with my hands...sandwiches, pizza, calzones, chicken wings, fried chicken in general, sushi (sometimes)...I'm sure there's other food I eat with my hands but I think its more common than Oprah believes it to be.

 

[DugMachine]

Looking at Opera's ass, you would think she is shoveling her self with both hands. Probably some silverware down there as well. What a ****.

Bravo, this made me laugh the hardest and longest today. 10/10

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Sigh. Oprah, when did you become the Ugly American? Do you not see the juxtaposition between giving a bunch of middle-class women in your audience free cars, and bringing some Indian man- who, by the way, welcomed you into his home- to tears for not providing well enough for his family, and then walk away without so much as dropping off a coupon for a free sandwich? Excellent job with the "America is best because America is best" bit, too. And then there's that cultural disaster at the dining table. "You STILL eat with your hands? My goodness, I bet you slaughtered the chicken on this table too."

"When their older daughter told Oprah that she?d like to go to London to study further, Oprah also played her role as American ambassador to the hilt and said, ?No. Come to America, it?s a lovely country. It?s the best?."

Because there education is so good.

Um.... [http://www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They're]

 

[lRookiel]

Why do so many Indians always want to study in England? Go to America - it's bigger and there is so much more stuff to do and see. England is a small island with a shit economy, a huge population and a cold weather.

I would much rather go to the states!

Because we have free healthcare, and I will say no more before I start ranting about immigration..

 

[mayney93]

As an Englishman , i am slowly but surely coming to despise our former colony ,america that is, not India. I don't understand the whole "america, f**k yeah" mentality, yes you are a power in the world, no you are not the best by far, recent events point that out very clearly, the fact that she can patronize Indians annoys me to the high heavens. Apart from her celebrity status, what specialist skills does she have. What gives her the right to patronize, apart from a misplaced sense of superiority? if a Indian, Englishman, or any other nationality were to visit america, they may find their customs strange and weird, but they wouldn't insult them in their own homes, it's just not the proper thing to do. Dare i say only an american would do this?

 

[Brandon Logan]

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Um.... [http://www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They're][/quote]

I was actually rather rushed for time when I posted that. Looking back the whole sentence bugs me simply cause I hate starting them with a conjunction. I really should of at least added a comma or two so it made sense.

 

[J Tyran]

Why do so many Indians always want to study in England? Go to America - it's bigger and there is so much more stuff to do and see. England is a small island with a shit economy, a huge population and a cold weather.

I would much rather go to the states!

There are huge Indian communities here in the UK. Many family's take students in as well and a lot of Indians have relatives here. Maybe less of a culture shock that way. We have as much stuff to do and loads of stuff to see, the only thing we really lack are the impressive and super massive geological attractions like the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone park. Besides there are other advantages to the UK like the NHS, that alone is worth a bit of wind and rain.

I live in Leicester.
We have the Golden Mile and the biggest Asian population in the United Kingdom so we have numerous students who come over to study. Heck, a lot of people just migrate here. Our Diwali is awesome and apparently bigger than some of the celebrations in India (and you get free food).

I am just saying if I was given the choice to study here or in the United States I would go to the United States. The weather is better, things are a lot cheaper and there are more things to do for young people. You can drink at 18 here sp most of the students just go into the Scream Pubs for £1 vodkas.

America is supposed to be the land of the free and yet people tend to come to this very expensive island. I just question why. That is all.

Cost of living in the US is a bit cheaper that's true. Birmingham held a large Diwali festival last year and opened it to all faiths, its a great festival.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Let's see nao... i eat
Hamburgers
Strips
Apples
Other fruit
Spaghetti
Oat breakfast rings that comes in those large boxes
Candy
Sometimes chicken
Pizza
Sandwiches, duh
Popcorn

With my hands
I have cats, so i tend to wash my hands far more frequently now, about five times a day if i play with them much

 

[scorptatious]

As an Englishman , i am slowly but surely coming to despise our former colony ,america that is, not India. I don't understand the whole "america, f**k yeah" mentality, yes you are a power in the world, no you are not the best by far, recent events point that out very clearly, the fact that she can patronize Indians annoys me to the high heavens. Apart from her celebrity status, what specialist skills does she have. What gives her the right to patronize, apart from a misplaced sense of superiority? if a Indian, Englishman, or any other nationality were to visit america, they may find their customs strange and weird, but they wouldn't insult them in their own homes, it's just not the proper thing to do. Dare i say only an american would do this?

Oprah does not represent all of us.

I'll admit, there are a bunch of idiots in our country. There's no denying that. But I hate it when people assume we all act like this.

It's like assuming all you Englishmen drink tea all day or have bad teeth. It's just a stupid generalization.

Believe me, I'm just as annoyed at Oprah acting like this because then it gives people a bad impression of us.