Cutlery Museum Cutlery Museum The Cutlery Museum is a museum located in Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme in France in the department of Puy-De-Dome. The museum has been open since 1982 to preserve the memory of the Thiers cutlery industry. The Cutlery Museum consists of three buildings distributed between the city center, among which the one is dedicated to the history of the cutlery industry (in the former "House of the Consuls", registered in Monuments History 1983) and the other one in demonstrations of manufacturing of knives and in exhibition of knives of art, and the village of Castle-strapping lad (Thiers) Château-Gaillard where one can
Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy The Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy was an incident in 2006 in which a Filipino-born Canadian boy was punished by his school in Roxboro, Montreal, for using his cutlery according to traditional Filipino etiquette. In response to the media coverage of the affair, a protest was held outside the Canadian embassy in Manila, and the Philippine Ambassador to Canada, José Brillantes, described it as an "affront to Filipino culture." Some commentators saw it as an example of prejudice, White nationalism and a culture clash, especially since the school board had previously expelled a Sikh student for carrying a kirpan