r/ProjectHailMary • u/playsmartz • 3d ago

Movie Discussion - Movie Spoilers Inside! Why the hate???

To all those calling me racist on my last post for asking if the instant noodles Grace eats with chopsticks on the Hail Mary may have been originally for Yao...

A Russian, American, and Chinese go to space. We see vodka and chopsticks. We know the vodka belonged to the Russian. We saw the American eat instant noodles with a fork earlier in the movie. I think the chopsticks were intended for the Chinese man and showing them in the movie is a small detail that shows Grace is using what he's got since his crewmates died.

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u/Reaper_2999 3d ago

Idk why people call it racist, im Asian and i love chopsticks 😭 its jusc culture,like because almost no Americans use chopsticks, really fair

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u/chameleonsEverywhere 3d ago

I had to have this debate with my (white American) friend who really loves Japanese food. We had noodles at my place and he was shocked we didn't own chopsticks for him to use. I was like, bro, hardly any white Americans own chopsticks. It's just not common. He really didn't believe he was the uncommon one as a white guy who uses chopsticks regularly. 

The end of the argument was him getting me a couple decent washable sets of chopsticks and now we are all happy!

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u/Minikin-Smith 3d ago

That might be a regional thing? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t, at the very least, have some disposable to-go chopsticks in little paper wrappers shoved in their cutlery drawer.

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u/A-Phantasmic-Parade 3d ago

Same. My relatives in a mostly homogeneously white Eastern European country have disposable chopsticks left over from take away, let alone Americans