Born and raised in China and came to the US, use chopstick everday, and use it wrong. I hold it like I am holding a pen rather than the "correct" way which my parents prefer.
Chopsticks is a highly effective utensil for eating, and you can eat extremely fast, faster than with a fork when combining the chopstick with a rice bowl. Americans eat with plate, which works better with knife and fork. Chinese eat with a bowl with all the meat already cut into smaller pieces you can pick up with chop sticks. You put ur mouth near the bowl and you plow that rice into your mouth as fast as you can. You can finish a bowl of noodle or rice much faster with a chopstick, with fork it's too big and too clunky and it's sharp too you may hurt urself :)
You cannot eat with chopsticks and a Plate of food effectively, rice if not the sticky kind cannot be picked up. You should only use chopsticks if you use a bowl to eat.
