Kiss: How To Greet The Custom Of Facing The European Continent?

Kiss: how to greet the custom of facing the European continent?

How do we greet people at work? Is the custom of etiquette etiquette in the European continent lagging behind the times? This is a thorny issue and worth analysis.

"I have realized that the core element of women's strength is even just the independence of women is kissing."

The e-mail was served before lunch.

Guests are gathered to give advice on the theme of the next summit of the Women at theTop.

Although the outstanding sender could not attend, she wanted to share her thoughts on the agenda.

Kiss.

This theme is somewhat unexpected, but it is not shocking.

How do we greet people at work? This is a tricky and changeable problem.

Discussing this topic at the meeting is both stressful and fitting to the current hot topic of social debate.

Shaking hands and kissing -- the strangest thing is Donald's handshake and kissing to other leaders by DonaldTrump Trump is a power game that deserves analysis.

During the lunch conversation with other guests, I also realized that I find it difficult to grasp the appropriate greeting.

As a stiff English man, I was born with a strong handshake. I used to greet my close relatives, friends and strangers in this way.

But when I was sent to Brussels in 1990s, I had to get used to the customs of the European continent.

Social networking has been quite difficult.

I met my Spanish wife in Belgium, and I learned to repeat her face with her Spanish female friends and relatives, sometimes for the first time, and occasionally even men in laws.

The workplace is even more complicated.

Shaking hands with strange men and women is still my first greeting.

But I seem to have begun to naturally respond to the kissing ceremony of the European continent in a mature way that responds to female acquaintances two times.

Some colleagues insist that this is wrong.

JonathanGuthrie, head of the Lex column, wrote an article this year devoted to Jonathan's strict handshake.

He recently told me that he still thought that the way he was more intimate than that was exceptional.

Jonathan, now Deputy ElaineMoore, made clear in 2014 that men should not welcome her with kisses (sometimes when they first met).

She said that such greetings are becoming less and less.

She was very advanced.

The scandals of the #MeToo campaign have rightly highlighted the issue of power and permissible in all working relationships.

TedBaker had recently commissioned a law firm to investigate allegations of "forced hugging", which led to Ray Kelvin, the founder of the fashion brand, being forced to take a vacation. RayKelvin

Another colleague of mine, ClaerBarrett, a former retail reporter, described the experience of hugging him for the first time when he saw Kelvin. "Claire", a former retail journalist, described Barrett's experience of hugging him for the first time.

"This is not the strangest part of him," she wrote.

But it's still strange.

Claude, the chairman of the European Commission, has recently been attacked. He raged the angry Juncker TheresaMay at an EU summit. A female executive I knew, howled, "this is a typical Alfa man's control gesture". Then he was seen rubbing her hair with a greeting of a female colleague, European.

These are offences, and men, including women, should not do such things without permission.

Even with permission, these moves have crossed the line.

The confusion of greeting has a long and embarrassing history.

According to a recent book by Ruth (RuthGoodman), in the English Renaissance, kissing the hands of Goodman has "many possibilities to embarrass you."

Julia (JuuliaSuvilehto) of University of Oxford (OxfordUniversity) studied social contact and told me that "the important thing is to ensure that the way of greeting is in line with the relationship between the two sides and the local culture". (JuuliaSuvilehto)

I know what is permission and I know what borders are.

But I still worry about my choice.

I can just write a column to analyze the situation of journalists and contacts becoming friends and whether they should make friends like this.

I just want to say that some women I know will kiss me every time they greet them. If I change hands, it will be more embarrassing than accepting their kisses.

Alison Stewart Alan (AllysonStewart-Allen), co-author of Working with Americans, told me: "once you have passed the handshake level, everything can happen."

However, as an American living and working all over the world, she also appreciates the cultural differences in greeting habits.

Her suggestion is similar to that of Claire Barrett: get clues from the other side.

The former female executive, who dissatisfied with Juncker's kind of greeting greetings, agreed, and gave another example: "you can never stop the Dutch from kissing three on your face.

The safe way is not to kiss.

But we are all human beings. If the situation is right then... "

But it is precisely the "situation" that has changed the field.

I should obviously declare 2019 the year of handshake, but I can foresee exceptions.

I also know that you're going to scream because you think too much.

This reminds me of the e-mail that triggered this reflection.

After lunch, I scanned the mail and found an update.

The distinguished guest originally wanted to write "missing" rather than "kissing".