How d'u feel about handshake?

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Do you handshake or do you only bow?What about your friends families bosses?I am asking because we have just read and article in my reading classes at Warsaw University dealing with this custom.Regards,PawelPoland

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[nq:1]Do you handshake or do you only bow? What about your friends families bosses? I am asking because we have just read and article in my reading classes at Warsaw University dealing with this custom.[/nq]
I believe the only time when protocol demands a bow as a greeting in Britain today is when you're introduced to the Queen - that's for men, women should curtsey (spelling? I rarely if ever use the word). Usually people shake hands when they first meet, when they meet again after a long time, when they are saying goodbye for a long time and when they strike a deal.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

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[nq:2]Do you handshake or do you only bow? What about ... my reading classes at Warsaw University dealing with this custom.[/nq]
[nq:1]I believe the only time when protocol demands a bow as a greeting in Britain today is when you're introduced ... long time, when they are saying goodbye for a long time and when they strike a deal. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan[/nq]
Kissing on the cheek is also becoming increasingly popular when men meet or depart from women in informal circumstances but the social "rules" seem rather fluid - whether to kiss or not, which cheek to start with, how many kisses. It leads to much uncertainty - rather like deciding how to address people in different contexts.
Phil C.

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[nq:1]Do you handshake or do you only bow? What about your friends families bosses?[/nq]
I must repeat the good advice given to a visitor from abroad:

"When introduced to a Duke, grasp him firmly in the groin, twist, and say 'How's things, you old ***?'"
Paul Burke

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[nq:1]Do you handshake or do you only bow? What about your friends families bosses?[/nq]
When meeting or parting:
I always kiss and hug my mother.
I usually kiss and/or hug my father.
I occasionally kiss my brothers but usually hug them or shake hands.
I always kiss and sometimes hug female relatives and close female friends of the family and of my in-laws. I always shake my father- and brother-in-laws hands and usually those of any other male relatives.
Other friends I greet with varying degrees of familiarity as suits them.
I usually greet colleagues (whether peers, bosses or cleaning staff) on arrival and departure but would only shake hands if I had not seen them in a long time.
In a business context, I would normally shake hands when introduced to someone and usually on parting.
Protocol demands that I bow to the Queen and shake her hand if she were to initiate the gesture, but I have never yet met her and, since I am a Republican, whether or not I would comply would depend on how well-mannered I were feeling at the time or whether I wished to deliberately cause offence.

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