Category Archives: Cultural Insights
Culture – Meeting on the Veranda
Culture – Sign of Grief
Culture – Greeting
Culture – Answering Questions
Most food for large gatherings is both cooked and served outside. When the food is set on tables or banana leaves there are always women or children waving towels or branches across the food to keep away flies. Papua New Guineans are very concerned that flies do not land on…
Culture – Waving Leaves Over Food
You are at a gathering of people and now the food that has been prepared has arrived. Several women are standing around the food laden tables waving small, leafy branches over the food. [polldaddy poll=7281418]
Culture – Leftover Food Answer
Both answers 1 and 3 could be correct. It is okay to not be able to eat everything on your plate. Because of the culture everyone from a 2 year old child to an adult will have their plates filled with the same amount of food and handed to them.…