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To: Dayuhan who wrote (3051)3/15/2002 8:27:34 PM
From: E   of 21057
 
And they also have different cultural definitions of appropriate space. This friend Jacques really didn't bathe quite as frequently as one might have wished, and of course anti-perspirant is an American abomination, and he felt that the appropriate distance to stand from one when having a casual conversation was... well, too f-ing close.

We would be talking at one side of a large room and in not many minutes, we'd be on the other side of the room as I kept trying to maintain the distance I (as an American) felt was appropriate and he kept trying to be French.

Later I read a book about cultural differences regarding space and it talked about that very situation, saying that an American thinks the French definition of casual chat space is appropriate only for intimacies.

Edit: I remember the book I read that talked about that. It was E.T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension.
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