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- shapesalad-2
No more shaking hands:
- your "headline" is quite misleading, considering this has nothing to do with "no more shaking hands" at allmonospaced
- we shake handz cause we wanna shake handzzzdocpoz
- how about jazz hands, can we still do that?_niko
- EU is a jokepablo28
- Yeah, because fuck respecting anyone elses' culture that isn't the same as your own. Ain't that right white Americanhobgoblin
- The person conducting the interview should have known the culture, especially when hiring a translator from said culture.hobgoblin
- If u don't wanna shake don't shakedocpoz
- ^plash
- as hob said already. she's applying as an interpreter, not a greeter. as silly as these customs are - who cares.Gnash
- no one would look twice if it was a germaphobe.Gnash
- I don't know, if she was in an arabic country, fair game, but given the culture of Sweden, had she just shaken the hand, she might have a job and more than 3kshapesalad
- When in Rome and all that...shapesalad
- And in 2018... religious do's and don't shouldn't be taken seriously at all, we all know the sky god nonsense is nonsense.shapesalad
- my headline meant, with this ruling in Sweden you can refuse to shake hands and the other person better not take offence at that as the law is now against them.shapesalad
- Anyway... why the strict gender rules in that religion? Because it originated in a desert nomadic culture.shapesalad
- When you go off herding camels for a few months, how do you ensure your wife doesn't sleep around? Cover her entirely, and limit her contact with males.shapesalad
- The thing is, in 2018 in Sweden there aren't that many camel herders. So these religious rules, burqa etc, are just causing divide and seem alien.shapesalad
- LOL. No law was changed or created!!! It’s just a ruling that she was discriminated against by not getting a job based on religious custom.monospaced
- It means only that if you refuse a job because someone doesn’t shake hands based on religion, they can probably have a lega casemonospaced
- She put her hand on her heart as acknowledgement same as Japanese bowing or Italians grabbing your ass, it’s all good!_niko
- "camel herders"
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face palm...pango - ^ read up on the evolution of religion to see why certain religions developed strict rules on male/female interaction and while others make no mention of it.shapesalad
- shapes' not wrong. there's been really interesting research done on the thisGnash
- my family were sheep herders. i'm not insulted by thatGnash
- lol mine too._niko
- Pointing out the religious background changes nothing. It is discriminatory.monospaced
- insert fascist communist nazi comment here >utopian
- OMG!!! no more SHAKING HANDS?!?!!? WE'RE DOOMED!!!!pango