Is it because you are too incompetent or your colleagues are too narrow-minded?

Personally, I think this is because my colleagues are narrow-minded and of low quality, not because they are incompetent. After all, China has been eating Chinese food with chopsticks instead of western food with knives and forks for thousands of years, so it is understandable not to eat it for the first time. I believe that people who don't often eat western food will be at a loss to eat western food. I don't know which hand holds the knife and which hand holds the fork. Actually, I think it's normal. After all, we are used to chopsticks, and we can get used to using foreign knives and forks at once.

However, regarding Chinese food and western food, I have always had a question, that is, why do we eat western food without knives and forks and be laughed at and called impolite, while foreigners who don't use chopsticks in China are not laughed at? Is it because western food is tall or eating western food is more ceremonial? Honestly, I don't think so. I think it is normal for China people not to eat western food for three reasons:

First, we have used chopsticks since childhood, only once when we need a spoon, let alone a knife and fork. As long as you don't eat western food, you won't use it once a year, and you can understand it without eating western food.

Secondly, we usually eat with chopsticks in our right hand, so we also feed them with our right hand, while eating western food with a knife in our right hand and a fork in our left hand, so we have to feed western food with our left hand. At this time, because we are used to eating with our right hands, when we use a knife and fork for the first time, we will definitely hold it backwards. After all, that was our first cognition, and it is given here. Can't eat western food? Buried the foreshadowing.

Third, the etiquette of eating western food is very different from that of eating Chinese food. Eating Chinese food is table manners at most, while western food pays attention to the so-called sense of ceremony, so many people eat western food out of the feeling of eating Chinese food, but they are not unable to eat it, but are not used to it.

Therefore, from the above three points of view, not eating western food is not a sign of incompetence. At best, you are not knowledgeable enough. Eat more and get used to it.

If you are ridiculed by your colleagues because you can't eat, you can only say that your colleagues are too narrow-minded and have no quality. For such colleagues, you can either go back directly, or ignore them, or you won't go out for dinner with them in the future. Of course, I should also learn from my own mistakes, because I can't eat and have been laughed at by others, so I should pay more attention in the future. After all, my colleagues have social parties. If I stagnate, I will be laughed at in the future. So the next time I encounter such a problem, I can either check how to deal with it online in advance, or let my colleagues sit down first, and you can follow. Anyway, I can't be nervous, I can't shrink back, and everything goes with the flow.