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Throwing planet-smashing energy beams at one another is OK, but those martial arts masters better keep their middle fingers down.
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One day, a railway worker in China was feeling down about his job and needed to let out some emotions about it. Unfortunately, he decided to “vent’em Gangnam style” and record it… and upload it to a popular Chinese video sharing site. You can probably imagine what happened from there – imagine it Gangnam style.
Chopstick culture is something unique to Asia. Japanese chopsticks, or hashi, are especially beautiful. Any foreign tourist can vouch for the allure of the hashi shop, a great place to linger and enjoy the attractive displays of hashi and their cases.
You would think that anyone living in Japan would get used to eating with chopsticks simply by using them over and over. Well, they do, but it may not necessarily be the correct way. There is in fact a proper way to eat with chopsticks, and even some Japanese adults—two in three people in their 30’s, to be exact—continue to use them incorrectly
Using chopsticks incorrectly can make it more difficult to bring food to your mouth, and it just looks bad too. Fearing the Japanese national image may be at stake, 33-year old reporter with Nikkei.com decided to see if long years of mistaken hashi holding could be fixed.
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