In a Private Setting, Is It Appropriate to Greet All the Males with Handshakes and Only Say Hello to the Females If They Do Not Extend Their Hands? I Think A

This is entirely Dependant upon your correctly reading the cultures represented, and then doing your best to respect that culture. You can (probably will) make mistakes, but thatu2019s OK.If the group, including women, is a traditional western culture, you would be expected to treat all genders equally in your greeting.

If you are shanking hands, then you would do so, equally, with men and women.In some eastern and Asian cultures, some women may not consider it proper to shake hands with a male, not from their family. If you extended your hand, you may find yourself not being met.

While this may be embarrassing (a little), understand that both parties are trying to still be respectful, and respond accordingly.Simply withdraw the as-yet-unmet hand, and give a slightly respectful/partial bow (head forward, back at a 10 degree forward or less here - very slight) as replacement greeting. It will be understood in the context offered, and both parties can still greet each other warmly, but without physical contact.

It is, after all, the intention of greetings to provide a comfortable and friendly way to acknowledge each other - the handshake is only one method. I have found, in many instances, the slight bow to be a perfect replacement, as it is now almost universally understood as a respectful greeting as well.Simply maintain respect, smile, provide a warm greeting in all cases, and your intentions will be understood.

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Is the DNA of modern Greek people similar to that of the ancient Greeks?

All these bullshit of DNA and ethnicity and race etc. thing started by European powers and it was good tool to control the people.

DNA or your race or physical feautures doesn't make you YOU. More importantly what your culture is, what language you are speaking, how you react to the things. This is more defining than just some appearance or DNA.

I am Turkish. If I check my lineage, my great grandmother is from Caucasus and moves to Istanbul around 1920's (end of world war I). She might be some non Turkish but Muslim minority there escaping from Russians.

Or she might be someone escaping from Turks. It can be anything. Therefore, the most important thing here is what is the culture you have ?

Today's Greeks are mixed with Turks. Turks came to Anatolia in 1000's and Syria and Iraq and Egypt. Since then, more and more Turks came from Central Asia.

Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and others who used to live in Anatolia didn't just die. They got married with Turks. Turks then ruled Greece for 500 years.

Again marriages, movements etc. people are mixed. That applies to all.

Turks are not Turks but mix of other nations who used to live in these areas.How stupid is to try to look at DNA's to find some connection. Culture is more important, culture.

We will die, our bodies will disappear but what we do, what we say, what we convey to others and ideas will remain. (the last phrase is inspired from the book called Kutadgu Bilig which was written circa 900 by the advisor of a Turkish king in central asia)

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I want to learn C from scratch. Where should I start from?

Go to school, lol. C is a popular language that schools teach. I wouldnt recommend C to most computer science grads (since theres not much C work), but if youre specifically looking for C then signing up for classes at a college could be helpful.

Find an open source project to contribute to. Thats how I learned Haskell. A lot of really popular open source projects are written in C, find one and start contributing to it.

Ive personally found the best way I learn is by jumping into a big codebase, finding out how to navigate, then copy/pasting until I start getting the hang of things.Develop a small game. C is a good language for game development.

Develop a small game using the existing tools in the ecosystem.Minecraft mods? I learned Java by modding Minecraft.

Now Minecraft has a new bedrock codebase written in C. I dont know what its like to write mods/add-ons for that codebase, maybe its in C?Also worth remembering, as a general point: (ignore this bit if youre already a pro) learning is hard.

There will be times when you may think youre not making any progress, but just keep pushing through. Its tough for everyone, but worth it when you work out how to build something new. (I say this because Im seeing a lot of people giving up after having been super excited about starting something new just a few months ago.

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What do the Welsh think of the Welsh language?

Welsh was my parents first language. My father told me that in primary school if they were caught speaking Welsh even in the playground , they were forced to stand in the corner of the classroom with a dunces hat on .

My fathers generation was brainwashed into believing that if you wanted to get a head you had to speak in English. As a result my parents spoke to each other in English whilst encouraging us to speak in Welsh. I Left Wales in 1969 but returned in 2001 to my hometown Swansea where I found much to my surprise and delight that at the University where I was studying many more people seemed to be speaking Welsh.

It appears to me that the changing point was when S4c brought Welsh back into being an everyday language. Who wouldve thought that a language could be saved and resuscitated by Soap Opera and a teddy bear superhero ? Im afraid my Welsh is virtually non-existent though bizarrely when I moved to Italy and began speaking and learning Italian on a daily basis, every now and then a Welsh word would appear from nowhere in the middle of an otherwise correct Italian sentence!

Wales and the Welsh have been treated badly and have taken it with a smile - if the Anne Robinson room 101 incident had concerned a different nation I suspect the outcome for her wouldve been very different. I am happy to be Welsh - I dont say proud as that word to me implies also those sorts of nationalistic prejudices. I am Welsh and happy with it.

As a postscript, in terms of the language Travels in an old tongue by Pamela Petro is an interesting read

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Why am I frustrated when I try to learn C in advance?

A number of things come to mind:The syntax is tough. E.

g. Virtual base class syntax is weird.Aggregates arent part of the language (e.

g. the way dictionaries are in Python), so there is a barrier between what you have in mind to typing the code that expresses the idea. You have to declare everything.

You have to be aware whether you have an object or a references to object. An object can be in the stack or in the heap, and you have to be careful.You have to manage memory carefully, so its a bookkeeping chore that a lot of people find distasteful.

There are features to make it easier, but its an extra burden to remember it. Errors in memory use can lead to obscure errors that may occur very far from the cause.Operators are very overloaded, so looking at a C statement or declaration might not be what it seems.

There are many flavors of constructors for an object. You have to be careful you got them all right.Multiple inheritance is confusing.

Debugging templates is tough because the code is inlined, so its hard to step through what is happening. (I havent looked at this lately, so maybe it has improved?)Function Name mangling can be confusing.

Changing one #include file can trigger a massive amount of recompilation.When debugging and you have a pointer, its sometimes hard to figure out what you have a pointer to. public, protected, private, friend declarations are burdensome think about.

Im sure there are other things that I have forgotten about

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Can Italians understand spoken Greek? Can Greeks understand spoken Italian?

Typical I only just read this!

hahaMost Italians who have some Greek roots or good friends know a few words (with help) Those in the South know some old words as some can speak Greek. (not everyone though). As for Greeks speaking Italian, I think its the same really from what my Greek lot tell me.

I do feel that Greeks make more of a effort due to that fact I have met a lot of Greeks with one parent, a grandparent who is/was Italian so they can get by, enough to speak a little like I found on my last trip to Greece because the place I was staying had English and Italians at the hotel. I love the Greeks, theyre a great bunch. .

not only that, my own Grandfather (mothers side) are Greek and I know what Im up against ha! Sadly I dont really speak Greek myself however my mother does a little, yet myself, my brother and sister we know a few words. it just goes out the window when in Greece because Greeks talk in English to everyone or speak a little Italian like the guy in the shop on my last trip back in Rhodes every morning Id grab a snack and bottle of water before a trek to the beach or whatever part of the island I was heading to.

Wed chat it was like Id known the man for years! He would always greet me in Italian and Id greet him in Greek even if he was busy with tourists, like I was some friend in town!.

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I am trying to learn Javascript and get a good grasp of the basics but every time a question gets a little hard for my level I am unable to solve it and end up looking for answers. Does this happen to everyone? Am I not going to be able to learn it?

What youre running into is actually the single biggest advantage of learning programming on your own.If youre learning some field in college, you might get a one hour lecture, and one or two examples, and youre then expected to be able to extrapolate that knowledge into harder problem sets and tests. Some people can do that, which is great because it saves a lot of time.

If youre anything like me, your mind simply doesnt work that way. You may need to see the big picture of how problems fit together, their underlying form so to speak, which comes from seeing lots of different examples and working backward from the solution to find the right mindset for solving them.In a college setting, looking up answers to questions and problems generally isnt allowed.

I think this is really unfortunate, because working backward from solutions and coming up with a pattern for solving them more generally is a really effective way of learning any material.The good news is, if youre learning on your own, you can learn any way you damn well choose.So spend a few minutes thinking about a problem, and if you cant solve it in 5 or 10 minutes, just look up the answer and see how they did it.

Your time is better spent trying to understand how they came about that solution than trying to solve it yourself. Then solve it again yourself until youve completely internalized whatever concept that question was trying to teach you.Eventually, if you keep doing this, youll realize all those things you thought were hard really werent - you just werent looking at them the right way.