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In Argentina, everyone kisses once on the cheek, including between men. Certainly a culture shock at first, put it avoids all the ambiguity in NA/Europe. Edit:
by heyitsnick 13y ago
In Argentina, everyone kisses once on the cheek, including between men. Certainly a culture shock at first, put it avoids all the ambiguity in NA/Europe.
Edit: I should say I only know that to be true in the BsA area. Not sure about other provinces.
- w0utert 13y agoIn most of Europe, kissing each other on the cheek in informal settings is also perfectly normal, but usually not between men. Where I'm from (Netherlands) three kisses on opposing cheeks is more or less the standard greeting if at least one girl/woman is involved, but only after you get to know each other a little better. In other European countries, 3 kisses is weird but 1 is normal. I've never been anywhere in Europe where hugging is considered a normal way of greeting, except among close friends and relatives, and usually only in special situations (haven't seen each other in a very long time, or meeting under difficult circumstances). When I visit the US, the first time someone tries to hug me still keeps surprising me... So yeah, greeting seems to be a pretty diverse and complicated cultural phenomenon ;-)
- heyitsnick 13y agoFrench kisses - when you greet a friend, how many times do you kiss? http://24.media.tumblr.com/ea0ed4cd8ed84bd2d52b2b4d6e96caf7/tumblr_mk019fZVIf1rasnq9o1_500.png http://24.media.tumblr.com/ea0ed4cd8ed84bd2d52b2b4d6e96caf7/... Survey where strict boundaries matching the provinces of France are found. The number of kisses varies from one to five (!).
- arethuza 13y agoI'm in Scotland (and from a particularly dour bit of Scotland) and I can remember an Italian chap who was working with us for a while exclaiming "Why, I bet you have never kissed your father". The palpable sense of horror that this created remains with me to this day.