なぜ15億人もの人が箸を使うのか。

　これを毎日音読します。

　音読する理由等はこちらで👇！

〈英文スクリプト〉
 It is such of instrumental part of our cooking vocabulary, in terms of the utensils.
And it was like, that's interesting, there are people who live without chopsticks.
Chopsticks are a pair of two long sticks used to eat things with one hand.
Holding chopsticks is a little bit like holding a pencil, except that you have two of them and you move them together in a pincer movement.
Most of them are made out of wood.
They're also made out of plastic, bamboo, jade, gold, silver and even ivory, though I think that's not so cool anymore.
Chopsticks are really well designed for small bits of food.
They're good for picking up noodles.
If you're skilled, you can eat rice, pick up dumplings, pieces of meat.
There are some no-nos with chopsticks.
You should not use the chopsticks like drumsticks, which I know is tempting.
You don't want to stick chopsticks into a bowl of rice face-up.
And the reason for that is it actually looks like a bowl of incense, so it sort of echoes death.
Chopsticks are used in a huge portion of the world, across much of Asia, about 1.5 billion people are covered in the chopsticks sphere.
Different culture have slightly different variation of chopsticks.
Chinese chopsticks will tend to be long and round, Korean chopsticks are flatter and often made of metal and Japanese chopsticks tend to be round and heavy, very pointy.
While chopsticks are actually really commonplace in American society today, there was definitely a time in the late 1800s where this idea that Asian men, because they ate rice with sticks, were of a different quality than American men, who ate proper meat with a knife and fork.
But when China and United States began their diplomatic engagement in the 1970s, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, had to practice eating with chopsticks.
What's been really interesting to see is that as Asian cuisine has moved from the East into the West, chopsticks have become part of the experience.
There's evidence of chopsticks as long ago as the Shang dynasty, which is about 300 years ago, and they loved tripods during the Shang dynasty.
So when you cook with these big tripods, chopsticks are actually really useful, because it was a way for you to stir and to reach without getting burned as the water was boiling in these really big pods.
Chinese culture has knives and has forks.
It used them in many cases of cooking.
But in terms of like what moved into the dining room, it was the chopsticks.
One of the things about Asian cooking is that it often comes in very small pieces.
And I think part of that has to do with the fact that it's actually a lot more energy-efficient to cook little pieces quickly.
But also, then you don't have to cut them.
So you have a circular influence, where the type of food that is cooked allows people to use chopsticks, and then the fact that you have chopsticks influence the food that you can cook.
But at the same time, chopsticks reflect the communal nature of eating food.
You'll have these dishes that you put in the middle, it's very family style.
You go in with chopsticks and you put it on your rice, and then you eat individually.
There's actually a famous sort of legend where everyone has these really, really long chopsticks, like way too long for them to feed themselves.
And so in hell, everyone starves, because they can't pick up food and put it in their mouths.
But in heaven, people take the chopsticks and then feed each other.

〈雑すぎる日本語訳〉
　料理の手段であり道具。
　興味深いことに、箸なしで生活している人もいた。
　箸は、片手でものを食べるために使われる、2本の長い棒だ。
　箸を持つのはペンを持つのと似ている。それを二本もって、挟み撃ちのように動かすのではなく。
　箸のほとんどは木でつくられる。
　プラスチック、竹、翡翠、金銀象牙等。でもそれらはかっこ悪いわ。
　箸は小さいものを掴むのに適したデザインだ。
　麺を掬いやすい。
　慣れれば、ご飯団子肉も。
　箸で掬えないものはない
　箸はドラムスティックのように使うな。
　箸をボウルの米にかおをあげてくっつけたくないだろう
　？
　箸は世界の大部分で使われている。アジアの大部分。箸を使う地域は15億の人間がいる。
　文化ごとに箸も少し違う。
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　今日では、箸はアメリカの社会では一般的になった一方で、？
　しかし、中国とUSが外交上の取り決めを1970に始めたとき、－－さんは箸での食事を練習した
　アジア料理が東から西へ移動したので、箸も経験になった。
　300年前に箸の記録が。三脚が好きだった時代。
　デカい三脚で料理するとき、箸は大いに役立った。かき回したり、やけどせずに取り出したり。
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　－－
　ダイニングへ移動したとき、箸だった
　アジア料理はよく小さなものが多い。
　素早く小さなものを料理するためのより多くの効率的な力という事実と関係がある。
　カットする必要はない
　循環の影響、箸が使える料理、？
　しかし同時に、障子に置いて共有の本質を反省する。
　料理を中心に置くという家族的な光景。
　箸をもってご飯の上に置き、個々で食べる。
　長すぎる箸で他人に食べ物を食わせるという有名な伝説
　地獄では食べ物を掴めないので飢える。
　天国では箸を取り、互いに食わせる。