Q.
What are some common dining etiquettes in your culture?
A.
In America, one common and strict dining etiquette is that you do not place your elbows on the table. It is considered very rude to do so. This is taught to children from a very young age. I remember many times when I was very young, I would get my elbow smacked by my father when they were on the table. I learned very quickly not to do that. Another common dining etiquette that we observe in America is that we do not reach across the table for anything. You always have to ask for anything that you cannot reach to be passed to you. Unless the dish is right in front of you, any dish that you have to reach a little to get on the table, you have to ask for it to be passed to you. You will often hear, “Please pass the chicken,” or “Please pass the corn,” or anything else, at American dining tables. As a mischievous child, I would often ask for dishes that were at the other end of the table, and more than one dish, to be passed to me at Thanksgiving or Christmas meals, just to see the amount of people that had to move their hands and the activities involved to pass the food dishes to me.
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