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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Is [kissing] uncommon in your experience, or is it just uncommon in a professional/state setting?
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It's very French.* The bissou (or the two cheek bissou-bissou) greeting is certainly appropriate in a non-professional setting if one is European, or perhaps a member of the East Coast boarding school/legacy Ivy elite, and even in a few professional contexts, if one is European and greeting an old friend one hasn't seen in quite a while.**
I would not greet or introduce a female co-worker, whether above, below or equal to me, with a kiss in any professional setting. Maybe if she were getting some award for charity work or something.
But still, I don't think it's inappropriate as much as just weird.
* I say this in the same way Kerry noted that Cheney's daughter was a lesbian: I don't consider it a bad thing, but if you do, I don't mind.
** By quite a while I mean some time longer than the five minutes ago we saw each other in the hallway.
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