12国文化禁忌

子门口有一小块地方叫“玄关”，通常比其他地方要低一些，是用来脱鞋子的。鞋子不必脱

在外面。

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Don't wear your shoes in someone's house:

their shoes off, do the same. (Note: there's a smallarea right inside the entrance

called a 'genkan' which is usuallyone level below the rest of the house, where you

take off yourshoes. You don't take them off outside the house!)

不要拥抱刚认识的人：“大部分人都不喜欢拥抱，尤其是老人 。”

Don't hug people you just met:

folk.

电动扶梯上不要站错边：“在东京要站在电动扶梯的左边，在大阪则站在右边。

别人怎 么做你就怎么做吧。”

Don't stand on the wrong side of the escalator:

left. In Osaka you stand on the right. Follow whatother people are doing.

俄国

Russia

< br>不要送偶数的鲜花作为礼物：“那是送给死人的。适合的花束一般有

1/3/5/ 7

朵

花。”

Don't give an even number of flowers as a gift:

Proper bouquet will have 1/3/5/7 flowers.

不要一味依赖信用卡：“很多地方只接受现金。”

Don't rely on a credit card:

cash.

不要自以为人们支持政府的一切言行：“很多时候并不如此。 但也不要批评我们

的政府。我们自己总这么做，你就别插手啦。”

Don't assume the people support everything the governmentdoes:

often we don't. Don't criticize our government. We doit a lot by ourselves, we don't

need your help in that.

新加坡

Singapore

在新加坡，你可能会因很多事情而被罚款，包括：喂鸟、随地 吐痰、公共场所小

便、吸烟、遛宠物、公共交通上吃东西喝饮料、扔垃圾等等。

You can get fined for a lot of things in Singapore, including:feeding the

birds, spitting, urinating in public, smoking inpublic, having your pet in public,

eating or drinking on publictransportation, and littering, among other things.

肯尼亚

Kenya

不要蔑视宗教：“几乎你遇到的每一个人都是信教的

;

宗教 在这里一直都很盛行，

所以要是有人问你信不信教，千万别介意，因为这里人人信教是很 寻常的，全民有

80%

的

人是基督教徒 。”

Don't disrespect religion:

here is always on fashion, so if someone asksyou if you are religious, don't take

offense because it is commonfor everyone to follow a religion, and around 80% of

the populationare Christians.

不要不耐 烦：“除了少数商务会谈、银行下班及其他业务，这里几乎没什么事是

准时的。凡事都会 迟到，所以不要生气或不耐烦，入乡随俗吧，事情总归要办的，只不过迟

一些罢了。”< /p>

Don't be impatient:

couple of business meetings and bank closing hoursand most other businesses.

Everything runs late, don't get pissedoff or impatient, learn to go with the flow,

things will happen,just not on time.

不要对人直呼其名：“你可以加上小姐、女士、先生、医生、工程师等称呼，大

部分时候可以直接加上姓氏。

如果你不知道对方姓名，

那就称呼为女士或先生。

这能为你赢

得不少好感。只有当对方 要求时，你才可以直呼其名。”

Don't call someone by their first name:

and so (mostly the surname) are totally you want to call someone

whose name you don't know, refer tothem as madam or sir. You get quite a lot of

bonus points for refer to someone by their first name if they

introducethemselves as such.

新西兰

New Zealand

不要分不清新西兰人和澳大利亚人：“我们不喜欢这样

!

”

Don't confuse New Zealanders with Aussies:

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别奢望看到基维鸟

(

新西兰的国鸟

)

：“它们几乎灭绝了，讽刺吧

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