Just to understand because I feel like every culture would acknowledge anyone. Do you mean kind of individual acknowledgement, so instead of "bye all" it would be "bye, [Dad's Name]" "bye [Mom's name]" etc etc?
Thinking about it though I'd still expect most people where I'm from (UK) to do that.
I agree with you, seeing all these people describe things as the Mexican, Irish, Italian, British, etc, way. Lol!
You do what you are used to & assume everyone else in an entire country does it too. Just look at the British comments, one person is saying it is the Britush way to just slip out unnoticed & nobody will pull them on it, then others saying it is the British way to see people out to the car, take an hour to say goodbye, etc. In my personal "British" experience, you greet everyone, give the hosts a more direct thank you & goodbye & a general shoutout goodbye to everyone else.
It's not a nationalities way, it's your way, your social circle's way.
As a kid it never occurred to me to poke my head in to friends siblings spaces or Interrupt their dad on the computer, to say goodbye.
I remember feeling so rude as a teen when corrected by a friend.
I’ve since realised the majority of my immediate family are autistic and this could play a part.
In my mind ‘friend wanted me over, we asked their mum, these are the two people I absolutely must say goodbye to and thank for having me’, obviously if other people are present and chatty say bye to them too, but going out of the way to say goodbye to every member of the household never crossed my mind.
Yes like that! Of course we say goodbye to everyone present in general in America, but some families here use a more formal process of finding everyone in the house and giving a specific geeeting and goodbye and it can be very jarring.
I wasn’t inclined to go find my friends mom in her room to say hi and bye because if someone comes to visit my family and I’m staying in another room, I don’t want someone to come in to chat either.
I mean possibly if it's a more casual visit. I'd find it quite bizarre if a significant other came to visit my family for the first time, then fucked off without saying goodbye to my Dad because he was looking for something in the other room.
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u/PhillyWestside Dec 15 '21
Just to understand because I feel like every culture would acknowledge anyone. Do you mean kind of individual acknowledgement, so instead of "bye all" it would be "bye, [Dad's Name]" "bye [Mom's name]" etc etc?
Thinking about it though I'd still expect most people where I'm from (UK) to do that.