Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Chapter 14: Some Enchanted Evening!

There were several people joining Judson Moon for dinner from all over the world.  Sometimes people from different cultures have different customs than we do.  What were some of the unusual customs described in this chapter?

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  1. Here are some weird customs that Moon didn't know about and offended people by doing: Crossing his fingers, blinking, and refusing to kiss a man on the cheek. I don't think it was really his fault though because he didn't know about them.

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  3. He had to drink grapefruit juice with the Chinese people.

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  5. Some customs were if did a certain movement it would be cursing to them if you complemented the moroccans on there close they would take it off and give it to you.

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  6. 1) Some of the different customs from the book where don't eat with your left hand in front of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, don't snap your fingers to French because it is vulgar, don't give a thumbs-up sign to Afghani ambassador because he'll think your cursing him out, don't mention World War II to the German or Japanese diplomats, and don't bring up apartheid to the South Africans.

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    1. I thought that the custom where you don't eat with you're left hand is kind of unnecessary because there are some people who are left handed... Like me! Uh-oh!!

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    2. That's funny Calee I think it is very unnecessary to Calee.

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    3. Yeah some people might not have that much practice with there right hand and they wont be able to eat.

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  8. These are some weird customs that president Moon did not know that offended people like:don't eat with your left hand,snapping fingers,thumbs-ups sign and don't mention World War 2. Some of the people got upset because he did some of the stuff that offended people.

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  9. There are A LOT of weird cultures, some of them are, blinking, cheek kissing, and finger crossing. I don't think that I would wanna do that stuff to someone who I did not know either. I someone came up to me and was expecting a kiss... Well you're out of luck. If someone was expecting me NOT to blink, well then I would not be you're friend. If you have a certain culture or custom and you are like those people in the book and you expect me not to blink, then we probably will not get along so well.

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  10. He had to drink grapefruit juice with the chines people and he did not like there food that much and he did not wont to kiss a man on the cheek.

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  11. Some unusual customs were: Don't eat with your left hand, don't cross your fingers, kissing guys on the cheek, and don't give the thumbs-up sign to someone because he'll think your cursing him out.

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  12. The customs were dont eat with your left hand in front of the king and dont snap fingers to the french and dont put thumbs up.

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  13. When the chinese guy made a toast, Judson said that he was allergic to grapefruit juice, but they still made him drink the juice!

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  14. There was a lot of weird cultures some of them were, putting your thumbs up cheek kissing and blinking eating with your left hand. I think the blinking thing is CRAZY. Who doesn't blink.

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    1. That is very true Skyler like WHO doesn't blink ??

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  15. Some things i thought were mest up were when Honeywell said that if you complimented on the moroccans clothing they just take them off and give them to you,and Moon got in trouble when he blinked in front of the prime minster Taiwan.

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  16. One of the wierd costoms is not snapping your finger not doing the thumbs up sign not eating with left hand.

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  17. The one I noticed that was the most unusual to me was when the Prime Minister of Taiwan was insulted when Moon blinked.That was just odd.

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  18. He couldn't compliment on there on the Moroccans clothing they will take them off and give them to you.

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  19. These are weird customs that president Moon could not do in front of his visitors:do not eat with his left hand in front of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia because in his country they consider that uncleaned,don't snap your fingers because that's vulgar to the french,if you do the thumbs-ups sign in front of the Afghani ambassador he'll think you're cursing him out and don't mention World War 2 in front of the German or Japanese diplomats and don't bring up apartheid in front of the South Africans.

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  20. One of the strange customs was it is impolite to blink.

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  21. 1.One of the strange customs is don't blink or snapping your fingers or thumbs up.

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  22. there were some weird customs like blinking was offending one of the guest and doing a thumbs up.

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  23. Some of the different customs were that if you compliment the Moroccans on their clothing they will take them off right there and give them to you.Another thing that is different is that if the king of Saudi Arabia sees you eating with your left hand he thinks that is unclean.

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  24. Some of the strange and unique customs is that president Moon is that he couldn't do was the he couldn't eat with his left hand in front of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (because in his country they think it as unclean)also don't put thumbs up in front of the Afghani ambassador ( he'll think your cursing at him ). Okay no offense but that is a kind of weird customs!!

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  25. One of the strange customs was if you compliment the Moroccans on there clothing, they would give them to you. Another was do not give a thumbs up sign to Afghani ambassador.

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    1. Yeah that would be weird if they took off there clothes it would be awkward!!!

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  26. One person thought Moon was cursing him out when he gave him the thumbs up sign.

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  27. One strange coustoms was that it would be insulting if moon didn't drink his grapefruit juice.

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  28. Don't putt your thumbs up and don't eat with your left hand.

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  29. They all get mad at every thing he does ( like blinking , crossing his fingers

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  30. Some of the weird customs are crossing his fingers, blinking, kissing each other on the cheek, thumbs up, not eating with your left hand, snapping your fingers and DONT compliment some peoples clothes because they will take them off ,on the spot, and give them to you.

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    1. I think that all of the customs are pretty strange and that i might be uncomfortable if I were their.

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  31. I thought Moroccans were weird they take off there clothes if you complement them about there clothing.

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  32. #1 Some of the weird customs are crossing his fingers, blinking,kissing each other on the cheek, thumbs up, not eating with ur left hand, snapping your fingers. Thats Some of the weird Customs.

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  33. One of the weird customs is crossing your fingers kissing each other on the cheek and do NOT compliment there clothes or eles thay will take them of and give them to you and one more is he drank grapefruit juice with china people

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  34. Some weird customs are kissing each other,taking off there clothes and blinking.

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  35. Some weird customs are kissing,taking off there clothes.

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