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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am interested in knowing whether this is a cultural thing among some white people. We are not white and our families keep feeding and feeding and feeding us and their guests.  It would be devestatingly rude for someone to be hungry in their homes.

However, I do tell my own young kids “last call” at dinner time only, because otherwise they suddenly decide they are hungry at bedtime as a stalling technique.[/quote]

Can we not make this a "cultural" (race) thing? It's clearly a control thing, a "frugality" thing, a food-issues thing, an OCD clean thing. Those dynamics cross all cultures and races and regions and backgrounds, so let's not with that. [/quote]
I am Indian and I have never ever seen this behavior among my very large circle of family and friends either in India or the US. If anything its the opposite problem, with aunties and grandmas trying to push more food on everyone.[/quote]

Agreed. I’m Indian too, but married a non Indian. I miss Aunties and my mom (RIP) pushing delicious food at all times, though as a kid it sometimes annoyed me. Now I’m a mom and don’t love cooking. I tell my kids to make their own meals sometimes (they’re just 10 and 7 but into “cooking”). I also feel bad that I don’t provide tons of healthy snacks, so they eat chips, whatever. I remember how my mom and aunts cut a lot of fresh fruit, made full meals from scratch so we weren’t hungry. Now we have dessert every day. Feel like I need to improve this.[/quote]

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