A southern goodbye is saying bye 20 times and standing around talking
for another half hour while slowly inching your way toward the door.
True and important. I noticed this as a child but didn’t associate it with broader culture. I thought it was just the way our family did things. We moved from Oklahoma to super-Yankee Kansas when I was 6. When we were leaving our Okie relatives, or when they were leaving us after a visit, this is what happened.
In warm high-contact cultures, maintaining the relationship matters more than Getting Shit Done. Among cold low-contact Yankees and Krauts, relationship is an alien non-concept. Making money is the only thing in the world.
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