http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=493673This thread at neogaf reminded me of something extremely weird I kept seeing in american shows.West wing actors playing daughter and dad kissing on the lips.You see, in my country its traditional to kiss cheeks with people you are closest with ( blood related ) and in non family situations kiss cheeks to greet women and shake hands to greet men.Apparently there are people that peck their kids, their moms, their dads, their grans in the mouth. Some people say its natural, some say its creepy. Ive seen several say a lot of people in America do it, and others say that only a few would ever do it. Tell me of your experience, what do you consider normal in your country/state ( cuz america is a big place )?
Well the UK is essentially a better US (GIVE ME UR SHOTS) and I can say we don't really do it there.I'm actually in college in the States right now and I've literally never seen it.
my family was never really huggy or kissy so that never happened. you'd be lucky to get a hug out of my middle sister.
I mean, in my country is the same as in op's; but some families do the kiss on the lips thing, but it's generally seen as disgusting, once it was a famous family of singers, the fernandez, I remember a psychlogist saying that it's bad because it sexualizes the family.
I live in the states, and i've witnessed it on a few occasions(customers, family members,friend's family members).Majority of the times its usually a mother with a baby or a young kid and a baby. I know there's no ill intentions but its still weird to me.
I think it's kinda bizarre to even peck any member of your family on the lips. That's just.... yeah, no. I'd rather do the cheek.Reminds me of Ferris Beuler's Day Off "so that's how it is in their family" line Principle Rooney says.
I dont believe so Jesuszilla, or at least it was specifically addressed on the episodes I watched.Ive googled a bit and turns out this is a divisive thing with american states, Dc and southern states having a lot of people that do it and several other states mocking them for it.
I think it's normal and don't really have a problem with it, as long as it's not with me. I never really kissed my grandma on the lips and I don't think I want to. I don't know, feels weird to me.
I live where family bonds are super strong and where it's normal to kiss total strangers you've just been introduced to (although it's usually just on the cheek and it usually only happens guy/girl or girl/girl, never guy/guy), and even then kissing on the lips between family members is considered icky.
Jesuszilla said, October 22, 2014, 07:37:20 amSerious question, @Iced: is the family from the show in your screenshot Italian-American?My family is Italian-American and we don't do that. Hell, we hardly make physical contact for stuff that is not hitting each other.
Iced said, October 22, 2014, 10:32:42 amIve googled a bit and turns out this is a divisive thing with american states, Dc and southern states having a lot of people that do it and several other states mocking them for it.Yeah, uh, no. That is not in any way considered normal here.Definitely doesn't seem to be a regional thing, it looks to be a thing some families do, distributed randomly, and the overall reception to it is that it's weird and kinda creepy. Everyone advocating it is doing so from a defensive position, and shit, it's even fodder for a recurring SNL sketch (dunno if that works for anyone but Americans but the basic jist is: person is taken to meet significant other's family, family starts off greeting each other by kissing each other one the mouth, and things soon devolve into full-on makeout and dry humping), and I know I've seen it mocked several times in various media. I definitely can't recall it being used non-comedically, so that West Wing pic is pretty surprising!
That family kissing sketch reminds me of Sherri O'Terri and Chris Kattan's passionate and intense arguing/make out sketches.I suppose this whole kissing on the lips is a generational (as in their great grandparents used to do it and whatnot), cultural thing that would seem normal to them. But to outsiders who look at kissing on the lips as an intimate and passionate thing, yeah... its wierd. I felt strange when my mother would lick a napkin and then wipe my chin and jaw off when I was 5 and made a mess with ice cream. I told her to stop!!
I'm Italian and we don't do that. A kiss on the cheek and that's that.Also this:Iced said, October 22, 2014, 02:27:46 amYou see, in my country it's traditional to kiss cheeks with people you are closest with (blood related) and in non family situations kiss cheeks to greet women and shake hands to greet men.
The "some areas of southern US" sounds reasonable to me because I traveled to Atlanta last year, and I attended a party where there was a lot of kissing on the mouth among friends (not me though). So either they're all very close, or I was in the prelude to an orgy.
