In Brazil, people express their loves more physical. (Ok I am not talking about sex here...)
Friends, Family, Lovers, Colleagues, or people you meet just in a few mins, we hugs and kisses here.
It's very usual when we meet the people at the beginning, but I see more than that when I lives here for more than 2 months.
Anytime when people feel they want to kiss and hug a person, they will do so!
I had lunch with a father and son, the son is already an adult, the father kissed his son, during the middle of the lunch suddenly when they talked about somethings. (ok I don't understand...)
But I know that, he talked about some old things and suddenly reminds how he love his son.
When I told them we don't have this in HK/China, the older generation parents and children don't even talk on dinner tables, some HKists don't event like to have children, Brazillian friends were all shock... and then come up with many questions of the cultural differents.....
Lovers (no matter how old they are) are more obviously, they will kisses suddenly in front of people wherever and whenever, but the feeling is much different from the HK youngs that I saw.
People feel and want to kiss another one, because they have a very strong feeling of "Saudade" in their deep heart. It's a word do not have direct translate to other language, missing and nostalgia cannot be completed to translate the feeling. I might say it's a word about "feeling of love" or the "hunger for love", haha.
I kiss this little baby boy most of the time although he is very naughty!!!
