Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "5 Things Americans Do Differently Than Germans (Part 3) | Feli from Germany" video.

As a right hander, you are supposed to do the more detailed work with your right hand, and the more complicated work is done with the knife. You cannot do much with the fork, this you can handle with the left. On a fine dining restaurant, with silverware for some courses on the table, how are they positioned ? Do they adapt to local habits ? Or do people adapt to french style ? The spoon for the soup is also on the right, cause if you only hold a spoon, you take your good hand for that.
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@danclay8229 But switching hands, is more work, why do you call it lazy ? You demonstrate your non-dominant hand is completly useless, by behaving like a one-armed person. Using a fork is such a simple move as touching your nose, you don't need a dominate hand for this. The spoon is the first instrument, a baby gets. Do you never develop any further ? In the case of excellent cooks, you can eat a venison fillet, with just a spoon, but this is not everydays buisness.
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@danclay8229 Yes, I misread that. Comfort/Less work is not switching. The story of putting anything down I have never heard of. If you put it down, the table towel gets dirty. Some people invented a special rest for the knife. But usually, when you put it down, it means you have finished, the waiter is coming to get your plate. This is why, you get different silverware for your courses. Cause you put it down on your dirty plate. Next course you start with a new one, but as soon as you picked a new knife, you cannot put it down any more, until you finished eating. The entire dining concept collapses ;-) However, as Felicia said, the switching thing looks childish, or as you would be handicapped.
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Apply for it and go. The Canadian-German culture shocks are much lower then the American one, cause Canada is more European. They are used to multiple languages, they have public transport and health care, they use Kilometers and the entire metric system. It's really just the food that might differ a little. Just for case you bring maple syrup as a gift- you have to tell the people what to do with it.
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@nathan8219 Oh, that is a special topic. There are several agencys for several purposes. Depends on your age and what you want to do. Are you 16 and want to go to school, oder 19 and to university, or just 18-20 and do a year of "au pair", actually babysitting. The agencys are actually private organisations, like a travel agency, just creating the contact or organzing exchange. I just googled for them. I found Nacel, DAAD is for university or youthedservices.ca I think you can find it. I just know the european view, I was in Montreal, my sister in Atlanta. The prices and services differ a lot, some agencies really want to make money, others work at self-cost.
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