Let me ask this question one more time like I did before. I started a thread a long time ago saying I did not like shaking hands and I only do this to keep from being arrogant and rude .
I said one reason I liked working in healthcare because no one ever shakes hands. Some people who responded felt like this was a neurotic preoccupation. Even without a global crisis, there are people who never wash their hands, not even when they cough or at any other time.
Do you think if we never shake hands again in our culture that it would make people seem cold?
yeah, true, I meant I personally wouldn't think "weirdo" if someone doesn't want to shake hands. And I think it's another one of those personal preferences that people don't need to be judged over.
Short some religious observance, ie, Muslim woman shaking the hand of a man, I wouldn't think 'weirdo' either. Arbitrary personal preference? I would think 'odd' just reflexively as it is an established cultural norm here for hundreds of years. It's just part of any society that if personal preferences conflict with accepted and useful cultural norms, they're going to be judged negatively. It's up to the dissenting individual to be bothered by it or not, not for the culture to change for them.
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Short some religious observance, ie, Muslim woman shaking the hand of a man, I wouldn't think 'weirdo' either. Arbitrary personal preference? I would think 'odd' just reflexively as it is an established cultural norm here for hundreds of years. It's just part of any society that if personal preferences conflict with accepted and useful cultural norms, they're going to be judged negatively. It's up to the dissenting individual to be bothered by it or not, not for the culture to change for them.