Cultural habits
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Exercise 1
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Adjectives to describe cultural aspects - Quiz
Choose the correct answer to complete the statements.
- In Japan, people greet each other by bowing. Age matters, so greet the _____ people first.
- oldest
- beautiful
- good
- Italy has two main dishes, pasta and, of course, pizza. Both are _____ all over the world.
- unusual
- new
- famous
- Origami is an old _____ tradition.
- comfortable
- Japanese
- dirty
- During Day of the Dead festivities, people drink a mix of _____ chocolate, cinnamon, brown sugar and corn masa called atole.
- bad
- dark
- French
- For western cultures, noisily consuming food is considered _____. However in Japan, making slurping sounds when eating noodles is a way of indicating that you're really enjoying them.
- rude
- good
- short
- In Ecuador, it is _____ that two male family members greet with a kiss, especially between father and son.
- normal
- unimportant
- boring
- A very old Greek tradition in weddings is to spit on the happy couple. This culture practice is a kind of _____ luck that it used to protect them from any evil spirits on their big day.
- bad
- good
- awful
- In U.S., the tipping culture is considered as an incentive for waiters and waitresses to provide _____ service.
- better
- bad
- terrible
- In Nicaragua, it is _____ to point with the lips instead of the thumb or index finger like the majority of the world.
- elegant
- wonderful
- common
- It's incredible, but in Indonesia, it is ______ the tradition of polygamy (the practice of one man taking multiple wives).
- invalid
- legal
- funny