Making initial contacts07002019 문기철11002102 박은희13002040 심혜리13002037 신채린13002006 김균희

contents-The definition of initial contacts.

Initial contacts in Asia

Initial contacts in west culture

- Gesture

- Each national greeting

- Meet other cultures

-Give them a good feeling

What is initial contact?• we have many countries in the world and there

are different culture existed. Sometimes There are many question that to make them feel that at the first meet. some of things are doesn’t have mean-ing in our country but it’s can become mean to other country..

Asia• Most of Asian people have dislike to Physi-

cal contact.• Make lower themselves to the other people

for expressing their courtesy• The more lower themselves the more ex-

press their respect.

west• Physical contact is a feeling of intimacy• Stand straight and shake other’s hand.• They contact their part of bodies, such as

hand, face and nose.

Gesture

OK -money (korea, japan)

-worthlessness ( south france)

-ok ( U.S, east europe)

- slang word ( brazil)

The Best -very good (Korea)

-rude gesture (Australia)

-shut up (Greece)

-The gay(Russia)

China• China used to be agricul-

ture, so they usually ask ‘chifanlema’

• It’s rude, if you ask for hand shake to a woman

• Never ask other’s salary

America

• Stand face to face and shake hand each other. From the western time historically they doubt whether others have fire arms or not so shake hands give expression that they are clear.

France• ‘Bisou’ is a greeting, cheek to cheek for

twice.• Men and women of all ages can do the

‘Bisou’

Eskimo• Each other hit

cheek• How hard you can

slap a cheek mean you are glade.

• If you are closes then you rub a nose to say hello.

Israel

• ‘Shalom’ is a Israel greeting . • This mean is a blessing • The shalom is thought to have originated

greeting of jewish

India

• Indian believe that all kind of creature have a god.

• ‘Namaste’ is greeting to other person’s own god.

Korea

• “Did you ate” because we used to be a very poor country.

• Are you safe? Because we were invaded by China and Japan so many times in the past.

Meet other cultures

• They have different culture. We have to un-derstand them and adjust our way of man-ner for them

• We must not neglect or make fun of them because of the differences and also we shouldn’t force them to our cultural manner.

Give them a good feeling at first encounter.

Smile brightlyMemories nameEye contactComplimentingListening carefully

Thank you!