A man should be able to

Use chopsticks: The Chinese were eating spaghetti and blowing things up with gunpowder at a time when the latest summer fashions in Western Europe still included the word ‘loincloth.’ How they missed out on the fork, I’ll never know. All the same, China continues to become a more and more significant player on the world stage at a time when the U.S. is beginning to slip into cultural irrelevance. You need to learn about other cultures, learn that they matter, and learn why they matter.

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