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Because your next handshake could kill you. 

By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu

November 14, 2015

After five rounds of mind-numbing negotiating, the nitty-gritty is set and the
paperwork is squared away. That big-deal deal is now a real deal. But wait,
let’s not shake on it. Instead, let’s bow down and do the wai.

For the uninitiated, the wai  is the traditional bow greeting in Thailand: Press
your palms together in prayerlike fashion and bow your head slightly. The higher
your hands, the more respect you show. There are analogs throughout Asia, from
the Indian namaste to the Cambodian sampeah and Laotian nop; this graceful
bowing is used for everything from saying howdy to customers to apologizing
profusely to bidding farewell to business partners. The gesture is all feely
without the touchy — and one that the Western world ought to adopt.

Yes, the Western custom of the handshake is spreading its grip around the world.
But it’s not as warm a gesture as it sometimes seems. The original handshake
arose as an easy weapons check via the ancient Romans, who, upon first
encounter, latched onto each other’s arms to feel for any weapons hidden up the
sleeves. It had little to do with demonstrating “character, motivation,
confidence [or] assertiveness,” says Sharon Schweitzer, a cross-cultural
consultant and etiquette expert based in Texas. 

Nowadays, etiquette workshops and online body-language tutorials regularly churn
out advice on how to deliver the perfect handshake. The wrong kind of grip could
leave a bad impression for decades to come, but a firm one, they say, could land
you a coveted job or wow that gorgeous stranger. And oh, the significance we
attribute to the handshake! In June, China’s President Xi Jinping shook the hand
of Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang at the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank meeting in Beijing. Rumors quickly surfaced that this
“Shake-gate” was Xi’s nod of approval for Tsang to be the next chief executive
of the $100 billion enterprise. All because of a glorified palm rub?

 

Beyond the power politics, handshakes are also natural vehicles for spreading
infectious diseases. They’re ticking germ bombs — with the CDC estimating that
nearly 80 percent of infections are transmitted by hands, which teem with
millions of bacteria and viruses. This led Dr. Tom McClellan of West Virginia
University to laud a safer salutation — the fist bump — while other health
officials promoted the elbow bump during Haiti’s cholera outbreak, Mexico’s
swine flu scare and the recent Ebola epidemic. But fist bumps are too bro-ey and
elbow bumps are just awkward. Imagine knocking elbows with your future boss at a
high-stakes job interview. (McClellan did not respond to requests for comment.) 



The European and Latin American kisses on the cheeks are even likelier to pass
on the flu. But the ick factor for the Asian bow? Zero. It’s an all-in-one,
touch-free alternative rooted in humility rather than power trips. Still,
Schweitzer, the etiquette guru, worries about cultural appropriation. Each
culture’s greetings are “honored,” and poaching another’s might be
“disrespectful to the heritage and customs of the nation’s elders,” she
explains.

Yet as with food and music, culture is meant to be shared. So why not leave the
hearty handshake behind in favor of a more humble, sanitary bow? As for
Shake-gate, Tsang didn’t get the gig. But at least that handshake didn’t give
him the plague.





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