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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 07:00:47 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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   • olena

   @olena @KatyElphinstone True! If something cultural and generally for relatives or close friends is done by or to a foreigner, it feels awkward. Mentally, it's understandable why and it's appreciated, but still, we only do it because it's our culture and/or relatives or close friends.

   It's like kissing on the lips. I read before there's a culture where it is a form of greeting. They don't do it to foreigners, that would create all sorts of misunderstanding. And awkward if a foreigner do it even if it's understandable they want to experience the culture (and become a citizen later). 😅

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     olena (olena@mementomori.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 07:00:48 JST olena

     • Katy Elphinstone

     @KatyElphinstone @youronlyone speaking of those greeting kisses and mixing cultures - in my country it’s expected to kiss a cheek or a forehead of your relatives/ very close friends and their kids in general. I always felt awkward with that, and taught my kid they don’t have neither do nor allow that if they don’t want to. Here in Spain, they do those dos besos: kissing both chicks when greeting, and I got used to it, and do it without thinking twice(initiated by them usually) with some locals or same immigrants as me in Spanish classes. But if one of my Ukrainian colleagues would try to do that - I’d feel uncomfortable