In Argentina, everyone kisses once on the cheek, including between men. Certainly a culture shock at first, put it avoids all the ambiguity in NA/Europe.
Edit: I should say I only know that to be true in the BsA area. Not sure about other provinces.
Edit: I should say I only know that to be true in the BsA area. Not sure about other provinces.
So yeah, greeting seems to be a pretty diverse and complicated cultural phenomenon ;-)
Survey where strict boundaries matching the provinces of France are found. The number of kisses varies from one to five (!).
The palpable sense of horror that this created remains with me to this day.