Thursday, September 24, 2009
Norms
In class we were talking about Norms and how we need to acknowledge these things or we could offend someone or their group. For example the Norms in Middle Eastern where you have to hold the persons hand. One I don't like holding hands with a guy, it's just awkward and I'm not really into holding another person hand that I don't know. who knows if he has washed his hands lately and where they have been. what I'm also trying to say is there could be germs on their hands and it gets onto us and we could get really sick. What if you were the type of person that just couldn't hold the persons hand, like you thought it was just creepy. How do you think the people in the middle east would react?
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Its cool how in our culture we have our norms but somewhere else they can have completely different norms and a different set of rules
ReplyDeleteI agree with the holding hands part, but if you didn't do that in their country it would deff. offend them. Yet it's interesting learning about other countries norms and comparing them to ours
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