Why do Americans break normal polite table etiquette when eating? Americans use the fork in the right hand instead of the left.?

What is considered polite varies by culture and country

Get a clue...people are starving in this world and you're worried about something like that?

Different cultures have different ways of doing things.

Important to remember, we each have our own different interpretation regarding any given situation so what is normal, polite table etiquette for you will inevitably not be the same for someone else. Also take into consideration the cultural social and family influences playing a role in how someone conducts themselves, this being diverse and extensive and different across the globe. Right-handed or left-handed use of cutlery is also personal choice/personal comfort. There is no right, no wrong but simply a different way of engaging in the world.

In the olden days of Europe, everyone had a knife. Since most people were right handed, they held the knife in the right hand, cutting their food and using the knife point to bring it up to their mouths. When forks came along, they just stuck that in the left hand and kept cutting their food with the knife in the right. So they eat with the fork in the left hand. When they set up the table the knives go on the right, the forks go on the left. (We do it the same way in the USA.) Now in the NEW WORLD we had forks pretty much from the start. You would use the fork in the left hand, cut with the knife in the right, put the knife down, switch the fork to the right and eat with the fork in the right. It slowed you down, making the meal last longer and definitely decreased the appearance that you were always ready to stab someone. IMHO the European style is more efficient and better if you are eating around strangers who you do not trust. The American style seems to be more elegant and less hostile appearing.

You are just uneducated about American culture. It is perfectly normal for Americans to use a fork in their right hand.

Just like in some European countries, people drive on the opposite side of the road than Americans do because that is the European culture. So what?

You are obviously trying to get a rise out off people to stir up the unresolved anger issues within yourself. Good luck with that.

That's not breaking etiquette. You eat with your dominant hand.

I have learned to do both. I can also use chopsticks. It is possible to feed trolls with a nozzle and a caulking gun applied to the ********.

Fork in the right hand is the older tradition. Not that eating with knife and fork is more than a few centuries old. James I & VI definitely ate with his fingers, eg.

cause thats the way people in america do it

I eat with my fingers too.