[WhoIsDaffy]

erm dude, thats you there salv,

It really is the culture to hand canned drinks out sealed
and it really is the case that a polite guest refuses food 3 times.
its not a real refusal, more of a social "dance", and no one is going to get upset if you dont do it.

the point which is entirely lost.
Is that you (generic, not 'you' personal) don't know squat.

2 people having a meal in a sushi bar and drowning thier sushi in soya,
that is thier culture. and who knows where they get it from, perhaps they prefer the taste that way?
or perhaps when they were first introduced to sushi it was by the very upper echelons of the Yakuza and thats how they eat it?

you just don't know

ultimatly to say that the "culture/custom" these two have for eating sushi is wrong.
is to say that the mainstream "culture/customs" is better.

and to say that one culture is better than another, (no matter how minority that culture is, be it 20, 2 or even 1 persons own individual culture)
has a name.

Its called Fascism.

sure its not an extreme form of Fascism,
im sure no one is saying "gas the sushi drowners"
and that infact to simply poke fun at these people is pretty much at the opposite end of the spectrum, but it is on the same spectrum.

consider this.
if i had a thread called "butchering christianity"
and i stated that i was talking to some muslims and they said that jesus was a prophet but not the son of god.
Lets all laugh at them, gosh arn't they silly.
you would probably call me a racist.

this was what i was trying to put accross.
that we have no place to judge other peoples customs or cultures.
especially when we compare them to the mainstream.
(after all sushi started with one person going against the mainstream and saying
"nah screw cooking the fish-des, im just gonna put it with rice and eat it raw")