Kiss & Tell
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6 Dec 2008, 18:58
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As barriers between countries in Europe are increasingly relaxed and frequent trips across borders are a part of everyday life, understanding local culture and customs has become vital. One local custom that can cause a bit of confusion is kissing. Do you kiss, when do you kiss, and how?
Generally, people exhange kisses by placing their cheeks together and kissing the air, not by licking their lips and planting a big juicy kiss on someone's cheek.
So, tell us how you kiss:
Place? Whom? number of kisses? Which cheek first? Suggested alternatives?
example:
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Finland
- close family members only
- 1
- doesn't matter
- handshake
Generally, people exhange kisses by placing their cheeks together and kissing the air, not by licking their lips and planting a big juicy kiss on someone's cheek.
So, tell us how you kiss:
Place? Whom? number of kisses? Which cheek first? Suggested alternatives?
example:
-
Finland - close family members only
- 1
- doesn't matter
- handshake
- family, friends (only members of the opposite sex)
- 3 kisses, alternating left and right cheek (not too sloppy, mostly cheek-to-cheek)
- doesn't really matter, most start on the left
- handshake
- family, close friends (of the other sex)
- 2 kisses, left&right or other way
- doesn't matter
- dickslap in face
We raise the right hand.
I'll show you:
SIEG HEIL!!
":D"
The women are ignored.
class.