In One of the Cross-Cultural Miscues in Your Textbook,the American

question 53

Multiple Choice

In one of the cross-cultural miscues in your textbook,the American exchange student to Argentina should not have given her host family a set of steak knives because:

• A) Argentines are forbidden to accept presents of any kind.
• B) knives are considered hostile weapons, and Argentina is a pacifist country.
• C) Argentines do not use knives.
• D) knives in Argentina are considered gifts for ending a relationship, not for starting one.
• E) food implements are inappropriate gifts between strangers.

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