No kissing, pleaseee...
Hi there! This is something I really wanted to write about since the second day we got here. I know every country has its own ways of greeting people, and I'm ok with that. Culture is something special that makes every country unique. In Serbia, we kiss three times on cheeks (each time different cheek) when we say hello or bye to someone we know. In Tunisia, they kiss two times the same way. So, I'm used to kissing like that. What I'm not used to, and not ok with, is how they greet small babies. They kiss them on the cheeks too! Even strangers do that. When Tunisians see a baby, their first reaction is: "Oh, hi baby. You are very cute! Let me kiss you!" ( I don't understand Arabic, but my guess is they are saying something like this.) You would see most random people approach babies like this. It's ok to kiss the baby on the hand, shoulder, or perhaps the head, but not on the cheeks. I know they don't mean anything bad, since they are...