Greeting also call accosting is way for human beings to intentionally communicate awareness of each other's presencs, to show attention to, and to suggest a tpe of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other.
As with many forms of comminication, greeting habits are highly culture and situation specific and may chnge within a culture depending on social status and relationship; the phenomenon as such exists in all known human cultures. Greetings can be expressed both audibly and ceremonial salutes ut includes rituals other than gestures. Basically, greetings are often but not always used just prior to a conversation.
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How do you know how to greet someone? What cues does a person use to choose the appropriate greeting? There are few gestures to greet someone. For example bowing, cheek kising, eskimo kissing, first pound, high-five, hug, pressing nose, hand shake, hand-kissing, hand raising or tipping, and so on. Voicemail greeting also is another way to greet. Voicemail greetings are pre-recorded message that are automatically played to callers, when voicemail answer the calls.
Relevant to this is a little snapshot in USAToday (January 8, 2009) on kissing as a form of greeting. Men and women differ considerably. 32% of men will kiss only the immediate family while 41% of women kiss only the immediate family.36% of the men would kiss very close friends, which seems very high to this greeting watcher while 36% of the women would. As to the percentage of men and women who would kiss only a member of the opposite sex: 33% of men and only 5% of women. Thus, men and women have a different greeting way depend on the situation and the people.
In my view point, we will greet friends, family or the people every moment and everyday. Greeting can count as our daily routine too. It is very important to learn how to greet with someone especially in manner way. Even the person is your enemy or you just don't like he or she, we also need to greet with them before start a conversation but perhaps is not in a manner way. At least we already show our generous and maybe in one we will become close friend. We don't know what is in the future and what is going on in the future too. Hence, we must show our polite when greet with someone and we will have a same feedback.
