Just arrived in Canada soon, a friend of mine brought me to the Church to attend the Lord's day activities. Went into the Church, I heard someone calling me names, glanced, a Canada Ms. arms are brightly from the corridor to me. I recognize that is often to my laundry dry cleaning laundry guest, then smiles to greet her. She walked up to me a couple of metres, hesitated a moment, his arm down, continue and I exchanged. My brain flashed a question mark: she has just two arm big mean? I seem to have missed something.
Positive thinking, but others came into the Church, my lady customers and large pieces of arms, to meet another woman in the past. Each other immediately arms towards her, two women hold together and help each other pats on the back, and warm conversation.
I immediately knew what was missed.
Subsequently, this woman customer again to my shop and I rushed over to her a big hug. This woman customer would be shocked, estimates must be very strange to me how suddenly become so "Canada"?
Since then, I'm a woman and a woman between the embrace is handy, since no hold than warm, passionate enthusiasm than not. Can hold can be given up, I took the initiative to reach hug, feeling better now for several minutes.
Too much "etiquette"
Going abroad for many years, one thing I'm still not used — be gentlemen to hug and kiss courtesy.
The first to embrace my foreign men, was sold to my washing machine a salesperson. It was a 50-year-old man, a torrent of competence. Unfortunately, I was able to understand very limited, and only want to know, and then in his eloquent to search for answers in detail.
Check out the purchase contract, sales men and special happy lengbuding gave me a hug, before I have a reaction to loose their hands. Although somewhat surprised me, but soon realize that this is the home of his popular to say goodbye.
Later, the man every time to shop, are met before a hug when leaving a hug, warm mess, I yelled at the heart of the "too much".
In fact, the word "embrace" and does not accurately describe the action of this enthusiasm, because the two sides of the body does not contact, it seems that just hit the cheek. But for us, the introverted, reserved Oriental people, this is not the way we express feelings, even if the father and adult daughter, nor very few such actions, nor generally between brother and sister so that express their feelings. Therefore, in a foreign country and are not familiar with men frequently hold, my heart still be uncomfortable and resist the feeling.
When leaving Canada, say goodbye to my friends and everyone symbolically and I held out hope. Thanks to the sales man hug "bottom", I naturally, generously and everyone a "hold".
Wait until the United States to participate in the United States were party only to find that when I left, the host will give each female guest a hug, each nanbin will give her a hug. In contrast, "Canada" hug it "Pediatrics" — the United States peace not only hold longer, also in your cheek kiss on seriously.
In fact, at the door, we embrace the cross, cheek Kiss, but my Chinese men rarely do the hostess and host if you are not familiar with female guest, such a step in the Chinese guests door is omitted.
Let me depressed in their own home, the old party, United States of the peace were leaving you to then it often makes me stiff, has failed to develop the "Iron Cloth Shirt" Kung Fu.
The other day, I invite two friends to United States cards at home playing bridge, where the man was a musician, retirement living in the United Kingdom before for years, perfectly unique gentleman. I am not fit that others in my cheek Kiss are symbolic, but he is a true Pro.
Once he left, I felt a little wet face, scrubbed for two, a murmur: "what have been the ' tofu '?"
Husband immediately next to the add-in as saying: "eat anything and tofu? also thinks he's soft tofu!"
Then the old bean curd is tofu, you can't put it when cabbage?
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