Having followed very different life styles over the course of pretty much all my adult life — living, studying and working in a number of different countries and travelling in many more — I have picked up a number of behaviors, habits and views on people and their cultures etc., all which I most likely would not have had I spent my life in Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For instance, I greet people in a number of different ways. What’s more, how I greet someone says something about not only the nationality and culture of the person, but also how I see\/view them! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek look at what how I greet a person says about the region they come from or their nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, where I meet the person (whether somewhere in Europe, Africa, Asia or North America), the make-up of the social setting (whether mostly expats or locals) and what I think how the other person sees me also affects the way I greet them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, going for the hug and\/or kiss confuses them because of my nationality!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hugs, I must however add, are my favorite mode of greeting! What about you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How I greet an individual says a number of things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163,43],"tags":[200,130],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure-musings","category-travel","tag-culture","tag-international-travel"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/namaste-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-1ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29867,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/29867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A handshake, unless I know or am close to him, in which case a handshake and a hug.<\/td> North American man<\/td><\/tr> Also a handshake unless I know or am close to her, in which case a hug.<\/td> North American woman<\/td><\/tr> A handshake.<\/td> British Man<\/td><\/tr> Also a handshake unless I know her then a hug.<\/td> British Woman<\/td><\/tr> A handshake. (It\u2019s awkward hugging them, what with the height differential!)<\/td> Dutch\/Belgian man<\/td><\/tr> Three kisses on the cheek.<\/td> Dutch\/Belgian woman<\/td><\/tr> A handshake, unless I know or am close to him, then a hug.<\/td> Other European (except Italian and Spanish) man<\/td><\/tr> Two kisses on the cheek.<\/td> Other European (except Italian and Spanish) woman<\/td><\/tr> A handshake, unless I know or am close to him, then a hug.<\/td> Latin American man<\/td><\/tr> A handshake, unless I know her then a hug and possibly a kiss on the cheek.<\/td> Latin American woman<\/td><\/tr> A bear hug.<\/td> Italian and Spanish man<\/td><\/tr> Two kisses on the cheek and a bear hug.<\/td> Italian and Spanish woman<\/td><\/tr> A Namaste (Nepalese and Indian greeting) unless I know him then a handshake, and if I am close to him, then a handshake AND a hug.<\/td> Nepalese (or Indian) man<\/td><\/tr> Also a Namaste, unless I know her well, then a hug.<\/td> Nepalese (or Indian) woman<\/td><\/tr> A handshake…if he offers his hand, unless I know him well in which case there would certainly be a handshake and possibly even a hug!<\/td> Arab\/Muslim man<\/td><\/tr> One of the above depending how well I know her. If she is hidden behind a veil of fabric (i.e. a burqa) then of course nothing! Just a, “Hello!”<\/td> Arab\/Muslim woman<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n