I'm a rather curious person. 
After reading some interviews of foreigners that came to Brazil do watch the World Cup, I learned that there are so many simple things we do here daily, you foreigners thing so strange, different, inspiring, annoying.
I'd like to discuss simple information of our culture and compare how it works in your country, if you'd like to share some experience and culture. It might be important someday if we happen to visit a country we don't know much about yet.
Anyone can make a question or tell the others about some common habit you have and see how it fares on other lands.
Then, to start, I'll speak a bit about some things foreigners pinpointed in their interviews.
MEETING PEOPLE AND PUNCTUALITY
When you meet new people in Brazil (for the first time or not), from the opposite sex, you usually kiss their cheeks, one time each side. In some Brazilian states, there might happen a third kiss or only one (if that person is new and accompanied). If you know people for long, it's common hugging too after kissing once. Hugs happen amongst people of any gender of friends you have, male or female. The more you're close to them, the more likely you might hug them. But there can have some places in this country that hugging is less common, specially in cities where European culture is strong, although I'm not sure if in Europe itself hugging is not common either. When I lived at north of this country, near Amazon rainforest, hugging was somehow rare. Kissing was common. But here, in the south, in Florianópolis, hugging is almost as common as breathing.
So I had to learn to feel comfortable at doing so. Handshake is a more formal thing you use to older people you don't know much or people of the same sex as you, OR you use it before hugging your buddy (mainly a male-to-male thing). Women are not used to handshake themselves or men, unless they are completely strangers, accompanied by their man or if they don't feel ok in being hugged. If a woman shows you the hand to shake (if you're a man), you'll understand that she vouches for a more respectful meeting. But they might kiss once the cheek of another woman they don't know. In Brazil, men don't kiss the cheeks of the other, unless they are drunk or when they are really close to each other, life friends or else - or if they are homosexual. But to meet people here, you might be patient. Although we are spontaneous (we might simply WhatsApp others and settle a meeting to hang out and drink out of the blue, with no previous planning - and that includes wives and husbands to tag along), we are terrible with punctuality. Brazilian, in their great majority, usually get late to their appointments. It's common saying: "I'll be there at 10!" And then, they arrive 11 or even 12. I don't like getting late, so there are some Brazilians, like me, that respect this sort of thing, although we are aware and understand those who don't. Still, amongst all of us, our Government is the less punctual thing there will ever be in this country.
What about your country?
