Title: Etiquette in Asia - Wikipedia
Headings: Etiquette in Asia
Etiquette in Asia
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Bangladesh
Brunei
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Turkey
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Content: The Japanese honorific "san" can be used when speaking English but is never used when referring to one’s self. Japanese place surnames before given names but often reverse the order for the benefit of Westerners. A smile or laughter from a Japanese person may mean that they are feeling nervous or uncomfortable, and not necessarily happy. Tipping is rarely practiced in Japan, and can be considered as an insult, except in certain cases, such as tipping your surgeon for an operation, when visiting a high class ryokan, or when dealing with house movers. Consult the locals to be sure what is appropriate. If you can’t be bothered to wait for change, it is okay to tell a taxi driver to keep it. In the rituals of a Japanese cremation, the relatives pick the bones out of the ashes with chopsticks, and two relatives may then hold the same piece of bone at the same time. This is the only occasion in which it is acceptable for two people to hold the same item at the same time with chopsticks. At all other times, holding anything with chopsticks by two people at the same time, including passing an item from chopsticks to chopsticks, will remind everyone witnessing this of the funeral of a close relative. Korea
Like many Asian people, Koreans observe points of etiquette related to local forms of Buddhism.