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Originally Posted by sarasi
There is no "of course" about this at all. That a fork is easier to use is just your opinion and plenty of Japanese people might disagree with you. It can also depend on the food- like TalnSG I find it way easier to eat a lettuce salad with chopsticks than a fork because the lettuce will move around on a fork (if you can even get it onto the fork) but is more controllable with chopsticks.
And forks did not evolve from chopsticks- when in European history did people use chopsticks for them to have evolved into a fork?
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The chopsticks came from Asia, i believe China, and Japanese adopted the customs from the land they came from.