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Jun 2022
20m 56s

Traditions iconiques - A Kiss Hello

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In France, greeting friends, relatives and co-workers with “la bise” — a kiss hello — is more than tradition. It’s essential. Yet Mathieu Avanzi was so baffled by the custom, it left him wondering: did others feel the same?

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3y59bp7.

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