orlanne_scott

Hello, I'm French, so excuse my English ^^
I'm looking for foreigners for my exam in intercultural communication.
Could you please help me with filling this little questionnary ?

1) How do you say hello in your country ? (word, hug, kiss... / with your family (if different with male and female, please indicate), boss, friends...)


2) Have you ever been abroad ? If yes, where. How did you say hello there ?

3) In france, people kiss (even if they don't know each others). How do you feel about that ? does it shock you ? Do you do it in your country ?

4) Do you think it's necessary to adapt to a country's greetings to be easily integrated ?

5) Would you be in favor of an international code for greetings ?

Thank you for your help !

natasha666

Hello Orlane_scott,

I was in Germany and Canada. Now live in the country (part of ex Yugoslavia).

In Slovenia we say:

Zivio! (but only to the younger people and the people, we know
well)
Dober dan! (during the day)
Dobro jutro! (in the morning).

In Croatia:

Zdravo, kako si? (if you know this person as a friend)
Zdravo, kako ste? (to older people)
Dobar dan (or Dobro jutro)!

In Germany:

Guten Morgen! (good morning)
Guten Tag! (good day).
Gruess Gott! (greeting to God)

I think, I have seen somewhere how to greet in more languages, but have to find it.

Natasha

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Digius

1) In Italy, between relatives/long time friends, we use to kiss each other on the cheeks and/or to hug (no distinction between male or female)...the greetings are "ciao" (informal), but in a formal way you should say "buongiorno/buonasera" (good morning/evening) or "salve" when you meet and "arrivederci" when you dismiss...and shaking hands is the formal way of greeting

2)I've been in Ireland, Holland, France, Spain...I've used English when I didn't know the local language, and Spanish in Spain

3) In france, people kiss (even if they don't know each others). How do you feel about that ? does it shock you ? Do you do it in your country ?

It doesn't shocks me...usually it's the same in Italy when you greet a person that you meet in an informal way...

4) Do you think it's necessary to adapt to a country's greetings to be easily integrated ?
I don't know...I guess it should be useful
5) Would you be in favor of an international code for greetings ?
No, different is beautiful

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abu_dana

Well, I have to admit frankly, not like Frank, but kissing someone or being kissed by someone is a bit of shocking to me.
I can kiss my family people, no problem. Still rarely we do that.

I don't think we need some common international code for greeting, I agree we should saty different.

When we see each other in the office we say "salemetsiz be?" (literally how is your health?) or "qalaysiz?" (how are you?)

If we are closer friends we say "salem" which is very close to Italian "salve"

Also, elder people still greet each other "as-salam aaleykum", we greet them this way. That shows more respect.

Some people still prefer use Russian language say "privet", "kak dela?" "zdarovo!", "zdraste!"

I guess we are more like stereo-glots we still use two languages.

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natasha666

Hello,

When I was in Belgium, they use to give kisses on your cheek (usually three times) what is not so bad at all. It depends again from whom. I think all Roman or Latin origin people have this kind of greetings. I didn't see that in Spain.

In Austria they kiss your hand (if you are woman) what in old times have done only gentlemen. Austrian men are still gentlemen.

Natasha

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orlanne_scott

Thank you this is really helping me

It's really interesting to learn about other cultures and to see how different traditions can be from one country to another.

platypus

In Germany teen girls normally hug and sometimes kiss (boys just say hallo or something like that) or just say hello as the boys. Mostly you say "Hallo!" or the english "Hi!"

If we don't know each other we shake hands.

Just Hello or shaking hands or both.

We do that partially. I know this french tradition and to be honest I think it is ok if you know them, but if you doesn't know this person...ahm...I wouldn't like it that much
But with my aunt and my grandma and grandpa on mother's side we kiss on the cheeks. But that has to do how they do it in Iran cause my grandpa is iranian.

I don't know if it would be easier to integrate. But in my opinion it is kind of respect. If you decide to live in another country you have to speak another language and have to integrate.

Nope. Not at all! We are different - and that is good. Different countries, different traditions.