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Q: How come Chinese are so generous?
I feel Chinese people are so generous especially when it comes to food. Every single day there is at least one colleague sharing whatever they are eating with other colleagues. And I haven't experienced it only at work but also with all my BF's family and even strangers on the street. I am a generous person but not that much...Sometimes when I eat a little snack at work, I kind of feel awkward. Share or not to share?
maybe share with them something, that they may not tasted before? 
bigasspanda:
I did, I brought them some things and we shared. But they share everything...Sometimes I have a little snack and feel kind of guilty or selfish eating it all by myself. But most of the times those snacks are all my meal. I wonder if they consider us selfish?!?!?
communal eating is an oriental thing. It's not really sharing in the Western sense.
imo
stan118:
dude its not just an oriental thing, they also do this in the middle east, Africa,south America
Communal eating is definitely a Chinese thing, I don't think its selfish to have your own snacks. I bring my own snacks to work all the time and no one ever has shunned me or bad mouthed me for doing that.
idont want anyone sticken their chop sticks in my food with their slopper who knows what they have
who is generous?!!!!!........Chinese?!!!!!.......be careful mate that might be a trap....they want to get something from you...........LOL.....let me think.........your English?!!!! or the fact that you are a foreigner and they just want to act and show you their generosity?!!!!!..........anyways.something is fishy.....no Chinese is generous for no reason.........well................. most of them
