Re: Non-verbal communication

Exactly.  They keep trying to move closer, I keep trying to move away, and
thus at a cocktail party at a foreign embassy it looks like everyone is
performing an extremely sloppy and slow waltz without actually touching each
other.

This also occurs completely within our own culture, though.  I don't hug
people I'm not related to or in a pretty darned close relationship with (I
can count the people who I would allow to hug me in the low 20s, and I've
known all of them for at least 8 months -- most of them, I've known for more
than 5 years).  There are people out there who hug everyone all the time.
So when someone looks like they're going to hug me, I step back a little.
Last Wednesday night, we (a Hugger and I) travelled a good 10 feet without
me even noticing.

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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Roger Mills
> Ah, but consider:  our 30-36inch space seems stand-offish and unnerving to
> them.......
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