part 1The dinner of family reunion bore witness to clashes between different ideas about culture. The author’s mother, an emigrant from China, was too accustomed to the American table manners to be patient with old Chinese 1）__________ and courtesies at the table; while the author’s aunt pretended too hard to be a polite 2）__________, who still acted with such 3）__________ courtesy, but in the end, always took everything. So the author’s mother suggested at the end of the dinner that in America, a Chinese person could starve to death, because if they don’t 4）__________ the old rules of 5）__________ and say they want it, Americans will leave them hungry, since Americans have no time to be polite.