For a moment let’s just forget about the article’s unity and coherence and take a good look at the topic. Eating bugs! Yuck. I can’t even bring myself to think about it. To me it feels like something alien and disgusting that I can’t even bear to picture the scene.
Through paragraphs the author described eating bugs as something that is ordinary in many countries. Maggots, centipedes, spiders and the protagonist of today the crickets! Some countries consider fried insects to be delicacies in their hometowns, but I must say that I can’t agree with them. The idea of live insects thrown into frying pans or big pots makes my skin crawl, let along having to put them in one’s mouth. Some people think that fried insects are tasty; they’re full of protein and rich in nutrients. Maybe from a professional view they are right, eating some kind of bugs can be good for one’s health, but to choose between a few tablets of vitamin and some fried crickets, I would gladly take the former one for choice.
But still, due to cultural difference, we should respect the traditions and habits of others, for this is the basic of human interaction. We can choose not to eat the bugs but who gives us the right to interfere with the others’ choices? When I was watching the bug-eating video after the article, beside from my own shocked face from the sight, many faces in the video also appeared to be scared and frightened. From this small aspect of dining habits between nations and countries, it can be extended to big international issues and conflicts throughout the world.
Many clashes are happening because of a simple word “respect”. When it can’t be fulfilled, people tend to cross each others’ line and a row is likely to happen. Eating bugs is a good example, the small percent of people that enjoy this course aside; most of us regard it as some kind of freakish act. In this case the small few who enjoy it are likely to become the vulnerable group, only because less people are standing on their side. Many events are not far from different than the example, and this is why I think respect and tolerance are so important in our lives. But to give me a hundred N.T dollars I am still refusing to take a bite on those cooked bugs.
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