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Tourist Taboos: What Habits You Shall Refuse Before a Journey

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You should remember that since the moment of crossing the border of any state, the tourists get under the legislation of this state i.e. under its criminal, civil and administrative laws and rules. You are wrong if you think that staying in a country as a foreign guest shall allow you to avoid punishment for their violation or to receive a special status.

Ignorance of law does not exempt you from responsibility, even if this law belongs to a foreign country.

Your common style of behavior and clothes or any statements may be perceived as disrespectful, violating the country’s laws and rules, insulting religious or national feelings of people who surround you.

Tourists often have to pay enormous fines for actions they would never have paid their attention at in their native country. You may have to pay a significant amount of money or even be taken to custody for smoking in an inappropriate place or for throwing a scrap of paper in the street.

Let’s view, for example, every tourist’s natural wish to make photos or to shoot everything. In certain African and Arabic countries you cannot shoot administrative buildings, police officers, persons in uniform and women. On the whole, while shooting you should preliminarily ask in a polite form whether you are allowed to do it.

On arrival in a foreign country, you are recommended to get acquainted with procedure of moving through the country for foreigners, local rules of commerce, traveling in public transport and strictly observe them.

Tourists are often reminded that in many Moslem countries norms of behavior are defined by the sharia Laws that strictly regulate relationships between men and women, prohibit drinking alcohol, etc. If you found yourself in a Moslem country during the period of Ramazan (the month of fest), avoid eating and smoking during the daytime in public places. In many countries women are not allowed to go out in open clothes. Strict garments help avoiding excessive attention of the local citizens and conflicts.

In a view of avoiding undesired incidents you are recommended:
- to treat local population amicably, to take into account their lifestyle;
- to be patient, not to be rude, not to raise you voice, not to disgrace local population, not to say abusive utterances addressed to the country’s government;
- to respect local customs and traditions, not to show haughtiness and scorn towards the local culture.

Administration of one of the Indian states has made its own behavior code consisting of 20 pages. According to these rules, men are prohibited to touch the representatives of the fair sex in public.

Only old and sick women make exclusion to this rule. And such a mode of expressing feelings as young people’s embrace and kisses in public are even considered as an absolutely inadmissible behavior.

At the entrance of any Indian temple guests are asked to take off their shoes. In India it is not customary to bathe naked, however, you may bargain with taxi-drivers. And it is impossible to hitch-hike in China: private carrying is prohibited. In this country you cannot leave sticks put into your meal, especially if they jut out of the cup. Also you shall not give watch as a present, since it is associated with the word “death”. The Japanese are not given bunches made of four or nine flowers – these numbers are considered unlucky. In Italy you cannot bathe in fountains. In Turkey you shall be fined for inaccurate treatment of the Turkish lira. In Yemen import of pork products is prohibited on the death penalty.

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Article Submitted On: November 30, 2007