小组presentation：东西方打招呼方式的不同演讲稿

Have you eaten?

You must be curious about what I’m talking about. I should normally say “Hello, Hi” or something else to greet you. And “Have you eaten” is a very traditional way to greet used by Chinese. Okay, this is the topic I’m going to talk about—The Greeting Ways Between China and Western Countries. I’m Liu XiaoJie. I come from ICS.

There are so many differences among countries. Of course, ways of greeting between China and western countries are totally different.

As I said, in China, if we meet a friend in the street, we are used to say: “Hi, have you eaten?”, or something like “Where have you been?”, “What are you going to do?”to show our consideration.

Let’s watch a video.

I think Chinese people say “have you eaten” is because that in the past, Chinese are really poor, people are always hungry, so the most important thing when people meet is asking whether he or she is full or not.

However, in the western countries, the questions above are just questions, not greeting at all. They may think you’re inviting them to dinner if you ask about their meals. Usually, they’ll just give each other a smile or greet with a “hi/hello”﹑”Good morning/afternoon/evening”, “what a fine day today” ,”how is everything going” to show their considerations. In most occasion, American nod head or wave hands to greet.

In social situations, the Western people have a few different ways to greet.

The most common is shaking hands. This is the most mainstream way. In

England and American, people usually shake hands for ceremony when they first meet. Not like the English people, Eastern Europeans always give a hug to each other when they first meet.

If met a woman, a man would kiss the back of the woman’s hand. This is a ceremonious greeting.

Most western people would give each other a big hug if he meets with a close friend

There are some tips you should know.

First, when you are shaking hands, hold your hands softly and don't take the invitation to the one who had high social status.

It’s very rude to hit somebody’s shoulders. Don't do this unless he is your close friend.

And the following tips may be very important for the gentlemen. If you want to kiss a girl’s hand you must know.

Your mouth can’t touch her hand. Don't kiss the hands which are in gloves. Don't kiss a girl’s hand in public.

Chinese usually scrape a bow to greet people in the old time. People should stand firmly first. Then encircle the hands in the front and shake the hands upper and lower.

There are much more interesting things about greeting, if you want to know more about greeting, you can come to me.

So, it’s the end of my speech. Thank you.