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Funny or Humorous folkways. (pg. 3)
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I always found shaking hands (when you meet someone) to be kind of weird and pointless. |
Unless you're exchanging something through osmosis. |
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| Project-K |
| It's when you start studying other cultures that you realise how arbitrary and non-sensical your own habits are. |
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| Abercrombie |
| Czechs... we don't ask friends to 'cross their fingers' for good wishings, we ask them to hold our thumbs. |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ghost Raver
Were they cute? I love japanese girls :thepirate |
Yeah they were pretty cute, but their english was so bad and they were so awkward to talk to we left after like 5 mins. |
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| Lira |
^^^^^ Hahaha, I love it when they try to pronounce my name :toothless
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I remember the time I had a Japanese exchange student.
Apparently it's polite in Japan to smack/chew your food loudly to show you're enjoying it. By the end of the fortnight, I couldn't be in the same room as the guy during mealtimes for fear of punching him in the face. |
Actually, it seems some of them just don't mind it the way we do (to them it's weird not to slurp when eating noodles though), but I'm not sure it's that way. One of my bosses, for example, is really obnoxious when she's eating... but again, she doesn't mind farting in public (whereas no other Japanese person I know approves of that), and no one here chews as loudly as she does. I wouldn't be surprised to find out this is not exactly polite there either.
It's just like slamming your car door. Japanese Exchange students often slam the door shut, but after doing some research into it, I found out it has something to do with how cars in Japan are (so it's not really cultural or anything) |
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| Ghost Raver |
| quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
Yeah they were pretty cute, but their english was so bad and they were so awkward to talk to we left after like 5 mins. |
:D Well that can be cute sometimes too ;) |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I always found shaking hands (when you meet someone) to be kind of weird and pointless. |
Its kinda like an impersonal hug?:conf: |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ghost Raver
:D Well that can be cute sometimes too ;) |
There is a fine line between being adorably shy and frustratingly awkward. I for one can't stand the latter. |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
Its kinda like an impersonal hug?:conf: |
It dates back to when people all carried swords and , offering your hand to show you are unarmed. |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7
It dates back to when people all carried swords and |
I hope that eventually comes back into fashion. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I remember the time I had a Japanese exchange student.
Apparently it's polite in Japan to smack/chew your food loudly to show you're enjoying it. By the end of the fortnight, I couldn't be in the same room as the guy during mealtimes for fear of punching him in the face. |
Dude, same here. My parents had a Japanese exchange student when I was 10 years old... he was in high school. Every morning during breakfast, he would slurp the out of the milk in his cereal. It drove us all crazy, and I would just stay in my bedroom till he was finished.
One weird thing I've come across in Malaysia is when you take someone's business card, you're supposed to take it with both hands and immediately read it in front of them as a sign of respect. You also should hand your business card with 2 hands. stupid. |
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| lacksesepsotygh |
| indians, in car accidents, when the people around the crash site beat the hell out of the person responsible instead of calling the polizei |
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