Comments on: Cheekshake http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/life/cheekshake/ European Opinion Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:24:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: coheshun http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/life/cheekshake/#comment-6761 coheshun Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:15:25 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1079#comment-6761 Great Blog. I think French mannners imitators are even worse. Both-cheek kissing is mandatory in Munich if you want to belong to the furiously fast D'Dorf crowd, which has been showing Bavarians how to do advertising, and lately, unfortunately, how to behave, and recently, tragically, how to think. I am a purist though - I take my cues from the French directly: they do not Paris-kiss all over the place in Munich. Cool. Great Blog.
I think French mannners imitators are even worse.
Both-cheek kissing is mandatory in Munich if you want to belong to the furiously fast D’Dorf crowd, which has been showing Bavarians how to do advertising, and lately, unfortunately, how to behave, and recently, tragically, how to think.

I am a purist though - I take my cues from the French directly: they do not Paris-kiss all over the place in Munich. Cool.

]]> By: Morten http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/life/cheekshake/#comment-6760 Morten Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:04:56 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1079#comment-6760 In Sweden you greet and say goodbye with a grunt, a handshake, or possibly - if you know each other well - an inter-sex based hug. Two guys can hug if they know each other really, really well, or belong to some - in the eyes of the general population - suspect subculture. In Sweden you greet and say goodbye with a grunt, a handshake, or possibly - if you know each other well - an inter-sex based hug.

Two guys can hug if they know each other really, really well, or belong to some - in the eyes of the general population - suspect subculture.

]]> By: eulogist http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/life/cheekshake/#comment-6759 eulogist Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:05:30 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1079#comment-6759 Dutch people always give three, so there is not much refinement there. Hip young men do kiss other hip young men though. Kissing habits in Belgium seem to depend on the region, and/or the company. Men in Brussels and Wallonia are allowed to kiss. That is, if I observed correctly, as I do find choosing the right number extremely difficult in multi-EU-cultural Brussels. You never know if it should be 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. And is it the nationality of the giver or of the receiver that determines the number? Dutch people always give three, so there is not much refinement there. Hip young men do kiss other hip young men though.
Kissing habits in Belgium seem to depend on the region, and/or the company. Men in Brussels and Wallonia are allowed to kiss. That is, if I observed correctly, as I do find choosing the right number extremely difficult in multi-EU-cultural Brussels. You never know if it should be 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. And is it the nationality of the giver or of the receiver that determines the number?

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