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You have to look at it from the fundamentals of cultural identity. Gypsies have a belief that evil gets to you when you drink downstream from where you wash / shit. Somewhere some smart gypsy created that belief to keep future gypsies safer.How is wiping your ass with toilet paper (or wet wipes, or using a bidet), and then eating food with utensils (so basically two degrees of separation between shit and your mouth) somehow worse than what the Indians do?
It's like muslims and christians each saying the other treat women badly. Muslims accuse christians of not protecting their women and christians accuse muslims of caging their women.
Now in the case of Indians it's a kind of asymmetric warfare. Indians have both an superiority and an inferiority complex. So he lashes out strongly because his pooploving ways are attacked and he feels vulnerable, but he also knows he's better. So he looks at what is different and accuses the other.
He grew up learning to wipe with one hand and eat with the other. It might as well be a religious custom. It's dirty not to do so. And then he sees someone who doesn't both mixing up wiping and eating hand, and it's haram, it's unchristian, it's just plain wrong, dirty and evil. So he uses that to show the shortcomings of the western man.
It's not so different from whypipo don' season they food.
It's also the kind of thing that isn't meant as a dialogue. Them saying it, is a verbal cow pie being thrown at you. It's meant for the other indians. They all know the toilet and toilet paper is how the toilet witch gets to you. They know enough english to know they can't defend it from inside your dialectic. So they attack yours in a way his tribe agrees with him.