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France questions!! please help!!? |
can you guys please help me out, & tell me the answers for the following?
10 points for best answer!
it's for school!
religion in france - like major percentages.
wedding customs- detailed description.
hobbies/ special interest of majority pastimes.
Major holidays,
word used for hello/ good bye.
do they shake hands for hello? or what is their custom.
other common gestures . i need 3-5.
examples of advertisements.
please help.
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Religion: Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%-10%, unaffiliated 4%
Weddings: France is a lay state and all marriages MUST be performed by a mayor or his deputy in a town hall. It is illegal to have a church wedding without producing the marriage certificate from the town hall first. So you get married at the town hall, then you go to the church if you want a religious wedding. The cars that follow the bride and groom toot their horns loudly on the way and are decorated with ribbons on door handles and things like aerials. Bridesmaids, if any, are small children, never adults. After a wedding there is usually a big meal with speeches and perhaps some singing then some dancing afterwards.The wedding cake is made of dozens of small choux stuck together with hard caramel, and there is an effigy of the bride and groom at the top. It is called a pièce montée.
http://www.francetop.net/article/Pi%C3%A8ce+mont%C3%A9e
Hobbies are sports, cinema , theatre, art, needlework, music, dancing, café or restaurant with friends, gardening and home maintainance. Even on beaches you can see ladies knitting or embroidering for instance.
There are occasional festivals, fairs and processions.
Sports include things like paragliding, mountaineering, skiing, windsurfing, cycling as well as the regular ones like tennis, volley ball or football.
Major Holidays are :
1er janvier : Jour de l’An (New Year)
Between the 22nd March and the 25th april the Monday that follows Easter: Lundi de Pâques (Easter Monday)
1er mai(May 1rst) : FĂŞte du Travail (labour day)
8 mai : Victoire 1945
20 mai : Ascension
30 mai : Lundi de PentecĂ´te
14 juillet (July): FĂŞte Nationale
15 août (August) : Assumption
1er novembre (November 1rst): Toussaint (All saints)
11 novembre : Armistice 1918
25 décembre : Noël (Christmas)
Hello:Bonjour/Salut/ Bonsoir
Good- bye: Au revoir/ Salut/ Ciao!( from the Italian)
Yes, we shake hands with friends and people we are being introduced to. If we know people well : Kiss on cheeks (You kiss left then right cheek. In Paris left, right, left)
Common gestures:
Wave for "Good-bye"and/ or blow kisses.
Thumb- up for everything OK. Thumb down for Don't do that, or it's bad.
People sometimes stick their tongue out but it's rude, and they cross their fingers behind their back if they are telling a lie.They throw salt over their left shoulder if they have spilt some on the table. Some people make a cross on a loaf of bread before starting cutting it. Touch wood to avoid bad luck.
Advertisements and slogans:
"Pour chacun, pour chacune, biscuits Brun, pâtes La Lune ".
"Adoptez le shampoing Dop"
http://domino.over-blog.net/article-24871017-6.html
http://www.euro-info-tourisme.com/France/publicites.anciennes.html
http://www.lalliance.fr/xmedia/atelier_BVP/publicites.html
Our National day is the 14th of July, NOT the 4th. |
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religion: majority Catholic
wedding first you go to the town hall, this is the official wedding recognized by the state, then if you want, you can marry in church.
hobbies dinning, time with the family and striking !!!
major hols Xmas, easter 14th July,plus a few other bank holidays (15th Aug, 1st Nov, 1st may etc...)
Hello: Salut (both ways)
shake hands or kiss when its two opposite sex
common gesture :Bof!!! Houlala!!!
ads: Michelin (bibendum)
hope this help, good luck |
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religion : christian
wedding : church then dancing party
hobbies : eating (cheese, wine), going out, tanning, music festivals, movies, theaters
holidays : 4th july (independance)
hello : bonjour/bonsoir, salut
goodbye : bonsoir/bonne soirée/bonne journée, salut
shake hands between businessman or people they don't know much, between guys, kiss cheeks between girls or boys with girls |
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Mitzbaby is right but for the holidays it has no link with the independance since France wasn't a colony ...
EDIT : no need to give me two fingers down, I don't really see who could feel hurt by reading that France was never a colony. Did you really think that the day of the holidays in France could have something to do with the independance day ? |
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