Not like that.
This:
And then you wash your hands at the end (and rinse your mouth).
Similar to your Ethiopian food experience, but the pieces of flatbread used for each bite are much smaller than the chunks of injera.
Several actual documented studies have shown that learning cursive activates different neural pathways than keyboarding - and helps with reading and with creating more complex sentences
Several times I’ve brought boxes of disposable fountain pens to my university classes and told the students to help themselves. Most didn’t even know which side of the nib faced up. I cautioned them to cap the pens securely before dropping them in their bags or putting them in their pocket, of course. One or 2 actually used them for several days. 
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When I was in grad school I hit a brick wall writing my thesis. My advisor told me to ditch the computer and dust off my pens and paper. To my surprise (but not his) it worked . . . maybe it was all of the doodling I did in the margins while awaiting inspiration?
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That’s interesting. My sisters and I learned the Palmer method in school and our handwriting is distinctly different. My mother and father both had beautiful handwriting. My handwriting is closest to Mother’s, my sisters aren’t like either one.
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I’m sure I did a lot of writing by hand when I did my dissertation- and spread the resulting notes and diagrams out on my dining room table. Even multiple screens (which I don’t think existed then - I used DOS WordPerfect) wouldn’t haven gotten the job done. I was grateful for WP - omg the footnotes - but still.
My scribbling is like mise en place for assembling my bigger work.
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Oh the notes were all certainly hand-written. These were the dark ages when we still went to the library and did research in paper books or even microfilm 
PCs were personal, but certainly not portable and I don’t want to imagine MLA formatting on a typewriter 
Had you little note cards for the references/bib. Microfilm and microfiche. I had a Brother word processor for the typing it our part. Made a person who grew up typing feel modern.
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3x5 cards for everything (easy to shuffle/rearrange).
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Knowing how much typing services charged per page (and they did a good job) got me up to speed very quickly with the word processor. Particularly the “add 125 footnotes” part.
It was like learn to cook or starve to death, kinda.
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No issue with using cheetos with chopsticks but cheetos with hamburger - that would ruin the good taste of a burger
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I still use those. My desk is full of 3x5s.
Same, but only with my right hand. So maybe I’m more right-handed than I thought. 
Since my dad was born in Shanghai and lived there until he was about 17-18yo, we kids were taught to use chopsticks at a very early age whenever he made a chopsticks-appropriate meal at home. I think I was 5-6yo when I learned, and remember using them at a restaurant our parents took us to off of Mott Street in NYC when my sister and I were young, and my parents took friends to play tourist in NYC. The owners were looking at us little white girls with surprise and were happy we used them. I still use them at home when I cook a meal that is appropriate for me to do so. It’s just natural for me.
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Totally a hand food. The gnawing on the lamb bones is an absolute part of the plan.
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I dunno. Usually with home made ham/cheeseburgers, I serve salads, all kinds of chips (potato, Cheetoh, tortilla), and pico/salsa/guac, cottage cheese, and other sundries. Folks pick whatever they like to accompany.
For some bizarre reason, I like to eat macaroni salad with chopsticks. I don’t remember when I learned to use them (nothing in location or family) but I’m comfortable with them (dunno what those around me think …).
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Girlie softball here: bat right handed, throw left handed. Go figure.
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I don’t know what generation you are, but we wrote with fountain pens at least in elementary school, if not into middle school. Different color ink was hugely popular with us girls (pink, purple, turquoise, green… you name it). Smudge smudge smudge… 
I’ve been mulling your provincial point over.
Bombay became more of a (regional) melting pot later due to its commercial position.
But Calcutta was the capital of the British empire in India, so it was actually more Westernized than most places.
Interesting if it went the other way.
