Just my two penny's worth....
You are WRONG in your assertion that Asian's
might use their hands to eat cereal... they DON'T.
I am Asian myself and obviously beyond my entire family being Asian and growing up entirely embraced by Asian culture/food eating habits, I have visited India at least 10 times in my life including a 6 month motorcycle journey across the country and another 3 month backback across Northern India as well so I am very familiar with Indian culture here in the UK and in India itself.
The general culture with eating with your hands is varied in the country, loosely in the north of the country they use round thin breads (like roti's / chapati's / nan's / & paratha's) and tear them up to eat the curry's with, which unlike what a lot of people in the UK experience are more often much drier and certainly not drenched in a sauce. The bread acts as a shield to the curry in affect, you could say it's similar to someone here not eating burger meat with their hands and using a bun to hold it with, which keeps there hands clean from the burger fat/juices as well as the ketchup & mayo... so India is similar to that by using the breads. In the south of the country they mainly use rice, which unlike what we here in the UK think of rice is more like a sticky rice which absorbs the curry sauces.
So yes in India they do use their hands, but it is done in a way which doesn't get your hands messy. I've had English friends come round my house for an Indian meal and see them tear up the breads and attempt to use them the way an Indian would and expectantly it has been initially quite messy, so like using chopsticks for the first time I guess you would need practice to get it quite right. So Indian's are quite adept at using their hands in a clean way.
With reference to eating cereals. Traditionally in Asia there isn't a culture of eating 3 meals a day as there is in the west, certainly with the poorer parts of the population. Usually people just had a lunch and dinner. Over time breakfast has become more popular and in the urban areas and is basically standard now to have 3 meals as we do. However quite commonly breakfast is
exactly the same as what people might have for lunch. In much of Asia people would just have a noodle soup for example for breakfast.
In India though they now have what is regarded as the world's biggest middle class and also the fastest growing middle class (which has a lot to do with their rapid economic growth) and cereal's have now become like here a simple quick and easy breakfast to have. Categorically EVERYONE eating cereal in India would use a spoon to do so. It would be as unexpected and shocking to see or hear of anyone not doing so there as it would be over here.
The really poor and perhaps rural population's would either not have a breakfast at all or would definitely still eat an Indian meal for breakfast, maybe something simple like a dhal (lentil curry) with either a roti or rice (depending which part of the country they were from).
Cereal's being a western introduction to the country would only be eaten by the more middle class people in India, with a more modern lifestyle and more income to. Similarly other new foods like pizza's, burgers etc would be eaten by the middle classes only. The traditional poorer rural population would still have a more traditional Indian diet.
The only equivalent traditional Indian food that I can think of to a cereal would be the dessert Rasmalai...
... which comes in a milk like sauce and again is always eaten with a spoon in India. Other common desserts like Kulfi (an Indian type of icecream) which is very popular there again is served with a small flat type of spoon (similar to a chip fork here, but with slight indentation's).
So, yeah as I was saying, this is my two penny's worth on that issue... and I can say for sure that you are wrong in your point that you made.
A quick add.... There is nothing wrong with Scott and Ashleigh raising the issue of Indian's eating with their hands if done in the manner of a conversation. In the west it's very common to use your hands as well (Ribs, Corn-on-the-cob, Burgers, Fries, Pizza's, Crisps etc.) but the
way that they said it was wrong. It came across as being made in a derogatory way, which makes it offensive, and BB were right to bring them up on it.