"Simultaneous Use of Fork and Spoon Incites Disgust" OR "Great Job Transcending Negative Francophone Stereotypes"

I think when they move from one culture/country to another, people should generally assimilate to the public courtesies of the country to which they move.

This example, however, is obnoxious: A Filipino boy attending a school in Canada was ridiculed for using eating utensils differently, and the intolerance was rudely defended by administration. See "Filipino table etiquette punished at local school"

It is possible that the boy in question has other behavior problems, and the principal or the newspaper reporter are blundering miserably in communicating the real situation. Failing that, some of the mean-spirited people at that school ought not to be working with children at all.