While Chinese hosts normally try their best to go along with the custom and tastes of their guests, they are pretty under their own cultural influence. For example, the h will often persuade(劝说) you to eat more and more, even though you've said that you are f

The persuasion can be a pressure and may make you feel uncomfortable, but this is just one of the Chinese table m . It's a very common way to show their hospitality and to show that you are a valued g It's not that they don't digest your words; they often think that you are just showing your politeness.

And the host may also take some of the dishes from the sharing plates to your plate for you with their own c  or spoons， especially the ones they think are very good dishes. This may be very shocking to you, but it's not rude at all in their c ; on the contrary, this is to show you that you are very w and that you're respected.

For this very reason, in a Chinese multi-generation gathering, adult children often take food for their parents to show r , and the parents with little kids do the same thing for their young to show c It's been this way for thousands of years, and they've been used to it so much that it has become part of the norm and they won't see it the way you see it.

However，if you are in big cities or areas that are exposed to other cultural c , the chances like this are slim. They'll show you their hospitality by using a spoon or a pair of chopsticks dedicated for sharing.

Who writes the passage? A foreigner or a Chinese?

What is the passage about?

Who is the passage most likely written for?

What does the word "hospitality" mean in the passage?

—I'm American, so I shake hands.（be supposed to）