Comments on: The very first Hugging Monday and feeling happy http://minlii.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/the-very-first-hugging-monday/ Exploratory and reflective views to innovation, organizations and life Wed, 19 May 2010 16:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vieniagalge http://minlii.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/the-very-first-hugging-monday/#comment-157 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:14:42 +0000 http://minlii.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-157 Thank you representing details. It helped me in my assignment

]]> By: minlii http://minlii.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/the-very-first-hugging-monday/#comment-108 Sun, 10 May 2009 18:56:14 +0000 http://minlii.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-108 Yes I remember that you don’t appreciate hugs :-)

Earlier in Finland it was not that common to hug, not even within family … However, gradually hugging habits have changed.

]]> By: daviding http://minlii.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/the-very-first-hugging-monday/#comment-106 Sat, 09 May 2009 12:10:15 +0000 http://minlii.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-106 Since I was brought up in a traditional Chinese family, hugging wasn’t something that we did commonly. It’s becomes a violation of physical space.

In the two years I studied in Chicago, I got an international family (Polish and Italian American descent), and learned to accept hugs. I’m not sure that I ever really learned to give hugs.

In years gone by, when I visited again, I remember that the daughter came up to hug me, and laughed because I again had forgotten how to receive hugs. I’ve just discovered that the study of distance spaces is called proxemics. It could be that the social distance for Finns could be about the same as for Chinese, but the intimate distance less of a barrier.

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