Foreign Customs And Taboos

* Don't talk about babies' eyes.

Chinese generally like to talk about babies when they say "look at the big eyes of water".

However, in Iran, you mustn't talk about baby's eyes, because Iran people are most sensitive to babies' eyes. If visitors are careless, parents will pay for digging out the "evil eye" of babies.

* women must wear earrings when they go to the streets.

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* never break the glassware.

Go to Hungary, whether you live or eat, do not break up glassware. If someone accidentally breaks the glassware, you will be regarded as a harbinger of adverse luck, and you will become an unwelcome person.

* Don't touch cattle.

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* Japanese avoid "eight chopsticks"

When Japanese eat chopsticks, they have eight bogey.

1, licking chopsticks.

2, the chopsticks, hands with chopsticks, do not eat what to eat, around the table to travel;

3, move chopsticks, move a dish, and move another dish.

4, twist the chopsticks, twist the chopsticks and lick the rice grains with your tongue.

5. Insert chopsticks and stick chopsticks on the table.

6, dig out the chopsticks, dig the vegetables out of the middle and grab them to eat.

7, cross chopsticks, chopsticks on the bowl and plate.

8, pick chopsticks, use chopsticks as toothpicks to remove teeth.

* hate to ask personal questions.

If you travel to the UK, please remember that you can't ask "where did you go" and "eat?"

They hate other people's personal lives.

At the same time, the British people even taboo people to talk about men's wages and women's age, even the value of his furniture is not worth asking. These are the secrets of his personal life and must not be allowed to be questioned.

Westerners dislike "13".

In general, Westerners hate the number of "13" very much. They will try to avoid it on any occasion. The mouth on the floor is 14. The banquet hall table 14 is followed by slogans, 13 every month. Westerners feel uneasy.

Westerners believe that 13 is an unfortunate and dangerous number. It comes from the last supper. Jesus and his disciples have dinner together. The thirteenth is disciple Judah. He sold Jesus out of thirty silver coins and put Jesus on the cross. This story is widely spread and deeply influenced. Westerners hate Judah, so the number 13 is used as a symbol of misfortune.

So, to travel in the west, we need to understand this taboo.

* left hand is unclean.

Traveling to India or Middle East, eating and taking things, you can only use your right hand, and you must not use your left hand.

Because people in these countries usually bathe with their left hand, go to the toilet, and their left hands are unclean.

Therefore, taking the food with the left hand is the greatest impoliteness to the host.