Culture: Greeting

Culture is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations... the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Culture means many different things to different people: the clothing, the food, the values, the laws, the beliefs, the music and dance, the material things, the language, the art, the medicine or healing practices, the shared history, the kinship system (whom you consider to be family), the stories, the hairstyles, the economic system, and much more, of a group of people. Families, neighborhoods, ethnic groups (groups of' people from the same part of the world), religious groups, regions, countries, all have their own cultures. Culture is constantly changing as people and places change.

Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings (as well as other members of the animal kingdom) intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other. While greeting customs are highly culture- and situation-specific and may change within a culture depending on social status and relationship, they exist in all known human cultures. Greetings can be expressed both audibly and physically, and often involve a combination of the two. This topic excludes military and ceremonial salutes but includes rituals other than gestures.
Greetings are often, but not always, used just prior to a conversation.
Some epochs and cultures have had very elaborate greeting rituals, e.g., greeting of a king.
Secret societies have clandestine greeting rituals that allow members to recognize common membership.

InOther Languages

English: Hello
French: Bonjour
Japanese: こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Korean: 안녕하세요 (An-nyeong-ha-se-yo)
Lithuanian: Sveiki
Malay: Halo
Nepali: नमस्ते (Namaste)
Portuguese: Olá
Romanian: Salut
Slovenian: Hello
Swedish: Hallå
Thai: สวัสดี (Swạsdī)
Georgian: Hello
Hungarian: Szia
Indonesian: Halo
Afrikaans: Hallo
Armenian: Բարեւ Ձեզ (Barev Dzez)
Bengali: Namaskar / Salam
Bulgarian: Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Burmese: Mingalarba
Czech: Ahoj
Dutch: Hallo
Filipino: Hello/Kamusta
Italian: Ciao
Turkish: Merhaba

Comment : Greeting is very important for everyone . You can greeting someone wih the word. The word is difference each other country. Thailand say สวัสดี but England say Hello . But on purpose is same as one .There is greeting