Hospitality-looking after visitors-is universal but in different cultures hosts are expected to receive guests in different ways.In much of the ancient world it was the custom to provide passing travellers with food and water, and look after them well. Indeed in some regions, if visitors were in the middle of a long journey servants would wash their feet.Today, some old customs have survived. In a traditional Japanese household, if a guest admires a particular object in the house, the host will give it to the guest straight away. And it is still typical in parts of Russia to greet guests with bread and salt on a special cloth.The gusts is required to kiss them and hand them back to the host. Sometimes the guest breaks off a small piece of bread, dips it in the salt and eats it.In some countries, when foreign guests arrive from abroad they may feel they have been given a particularly heavy meal. But this is probably because the host politely keeps on offering more food and drink, and the guest is too embarrassed to turn anything down.
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