"Faux Pas" or "How easy is it to offend people?"
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When visiting Berlin be careful not to look too fascinated by the collection of Nazi artefacts in the National History museum.
There were not many people in that section of the museum, apart from me staring at all the things I had read about in books.
Likewise be careful in German bookshops when looking at the history books. Some chap came up to me and picked up a book about the Third Reich. I couldn't understand whether he was in favour or not.
There were not many people in that section of the museum, apart from me staring at all the things I had read about in books.
Likewise be careful in German bookshops when looking at the history books. Some chap came up to me and picked up a book about the Third Reich. I couldn't understand whether he was in favour or not.
Kestevan
Last of the Summer Winos
- Location
- Holmfirth.
>>> any idea what you're supposed to do/not do in turkey?
Id recommend not going.... but if you must dont eat any of the local meat....
Based on the sh1t holes I had to work in when a service engineer in the food industry
Id recommend not going.... but if you must dont eat any of the local meat....
Based on the sh1t holes I had to work in when a service engineer in the food industry
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
zimzum42 said:
How quaint...
dangerousjules
Veteran
i work for an american company, and on occasion trying to make polite conversation with new clients whom i thought to be american they took great offence since they were from canada...they hate being thought of as american. i'm sure it works both ways darlings!
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
bonj said:
Get into conversation with the Kurdish Libertion Front. We did but I think we got away with it.. (Although they did blow a few places up later)
Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
- Location
- Sigmaringen, Germany
dangerousjules said:
It doesn't because most Americans have never heard of Canada and if they have they think is in Milwaukee, so that side of it is never a problem.
Rhythm Thief
Veteran
Fnaar said:When you are a young man in Spain, don't get pissed in a barcelona bar, and try to grab the superb flamenco guitarist's guitar so that you might try to give a drunken rendition of "dirty old town". You will get thrown out, and threatened....
you didn't ...
Rhythm Thief
Veteran
Lardyboy said:
OT, but when my grandfather was slowly dying of bowel cancer in the early eighties, he had a colostomy. He was one of these larger than life people who everyone knew, wherever he went. One day he went into a newsagents
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
bonj said:
DON'T diss mudguards. The Ottoman Empire has a long and rich history of mudguard use...
(I may, or may not, have made that up...
)Like someone said, I gather Turkey is fairly secular, so just being basically polite probably covers it. Isn't there a thing in Muslim countries though about the feet being a bit taboo - you mustn't for example, put your feet up so that the soles point at someone - hence those people in Iraq hitting the fallen statues of Saddam with their shoes, it's a great insult. In fact, probably not just Muslim places, hence the big deal about Christ washing the disciples feet...
I guess for ladies, wearing modest dress (IE, not hotpants and a bikini top) and covering the head in amy sort of temple/mosque/church probably covers most of the world.
The Canadian/American thing is easy, any decent Canadian will have a maple leaf flag stitched onto their rucksack or something...
