Finishing Your Plate
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Your parents probably didn’t let you leave the table as a child until you finished everything on your plate. “There are starving kids in Africa,” they may have quipped. Well, there may be starving kids in Africa but that doesn’t fact doesn’t move the people of some Southeast Asian countries.
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If you are caught finishing all the food on your plate, you could hurt the feelings of the hosts by indicating that they didn’t provide enough food for you, their treasured guest. Maybe some of that food could go to the starving kids?
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