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[quote=Anonymous]My father's sideof the family (Greek American) hugs and kisses at every arrival and departure.  So, if you arrive at your grandmother's house, you hug and kiss around everyone, who does it to all the new arrivals.

Then, when another family arrives, the entire group hugs and kisses all the new arrivals!  And so forth.....

We also hugged my father's business partners, whom we saw quite a bit when we were young because they came to dinner,  when we left to go to bed after dinner.  We did this easily and without being pushed until we were about 10 years old, then we simply didn't want to hug and we'd say goodnight to everyone.

Still hug everyone at arrival and departure from my father's side of the family!  And all the current grandchildren - and great grandchildren - do this.

My mother's side of the family never hugged, not once.  But I do hug my aunts/uncles when I arrive at their house.

I insist children are polite, they don't need to hug around, but they must say hello and goodbye.  (unless really shy, then we'd be working on this by waving vs speaking)[/quote]

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