Entrepreneur Minding Your Manners When Dining Abroad
Entrepreneur Minding Your Manners When Dining Abroad gathers the table habits that travel badly into a short set of tips for executives working across borders. Entrepreneur, a United States business magazine, runs the piece by etiquette author Jacqueline Whitmore, who covers seating, the pace of a meal, how much food to leave, speaking volume and cutlery, with examples from Japan, China, Cambodia, Germany, Italy, Chile and Brazil.
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Each tip carries its own heading: do not pass judgment on local habits, let the host decide the seating, slow down for meals that run several hours, think before clearing your plate, lower your voice, use a knife and fork where local diners do, and learn the Continental style of holding cutlery. Short examples name the countries where each point matters most.
Read the headings as a checklist before a meal abroad and keep the two or three that apply where you are going. The piece is most useful for the habits you do not know you have: how fast you eat, how loudly you talk, what you do with your knife between bites. Take a country guide for the local detail and use this one to correct the habits you carry with you everywhere.
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