CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Hi everybody! I look forward to a great year and to learning a lot; and hopefully we will be going to New York together.

And now a little bit about cultural differences that I have heard of or read about.

In the world, there are a lot of countries and each of them have their own cultural traditions, so I'm going to mention some of them:

-In Japan, you must eat with chopsticks, not like in other countries in which you eat with fork, spoon, knife...  Also, you mustn't wear shoes inside the house; doing that is considered rude, and when you are going to eat, you sit directly on the floor, you haven't got chairs in many traditional homes.

-In the United States, if you say or write that the Global Warming doesn't exist, and the police catch you, you go directly to jail.

-In Denmark, at the dinner, the host decide where the people have to sit at the table, and the dinner is also served much earlier, around seven o'clock. The country is very prepared for the use of bicycles, so the cities are generally really "green cities", with no contamination.