We're definitely committing all kinds of social faux pas every day without knowing it, but there was one social action different from our North American one that we noticed from day one. Shutting the door when you leave someone's house - you don't do it here! When you walk out of someone's house, you do not shut the door behind you. It doesn't seem to matter who you are, whether a friend or a furniture deliverer, you just don't do it. You let the owner of the home shut the door, even if they're not at the door with you.
We had observed this action but then I heard a friend tell a story. She was saying how one morning the kids were going absolutely crazy and she just had to leave to go to work. Her husband told her to just go and so she walked out CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HER.
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