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Tiny bit of backstory: I work in Spain so there's a lot of kissing on the chicks when greeting someone. Spanish people kiss twice, in western countries people kiss 3 times so sometimes there's a bit of confusion. Anyway, once a girl from Romania met a French co-worker next to my desk. Typical greeting and she says:
The guy got a little bit confused and says:
Not really related but I found it extremely funny.
cheeks I hope?
Haha true
Which ones?
All of them ;)
Spread them cheeks, kiss incoming!
…
What?
It depends on how well you know the chicks.
We in Chile we kiss only once. Right side of the face. The fist time I greeted a spanish woman I was confused as hell.
This could be used as a pickup line or something lol
In France, they kiss between one and four times depending on the region, it's infuriating. I've just decided to not kiss any more. It's a stupid tradition, and it's a great way to catch colds anyway.
Of course not, it's a cultural means of sharing germs that quite literally saves everybody by helping share in the herd immunity.
That was a thing before Covid. Nowadays, ehhh… it's more of a Typhoid Mary thing.
No need to be phobic, it's barely worth worrying about considering your phone probably carries germs too hahaha
Come to the UK, we don't do any of that shit here. In Yorkshire we just nod and say "Alreight?" or "How do?" and that's it, job done.
I'm french and the only 3-time country I know is Switzerland
Dutch/I think some Belgians also do 3. I'm sure there's some random place in France that would do that also.
Somehow it's always the romanians