1. RELATIONSHIPS: FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES

2. Introduction

3. Friendliness: behavior characterized by smiling, chattiness, and warmth, demonstrating interest in another person Friendship: a relationship in which people know, like, and trust each other

4. FRIENDSHIP VS FRIENDLINESS

5. Transient: short-term, temporary Esteem: respect and admiration, typically for a person Intimate: very private, closely personal

6. Superficial: shallow; not profound or thorough Exorbitant: exceeding the bounds of a custom, a propriety or a reason, especially in an amount or extent; highly excessive

7. Relationships: Friends and Acquaintances
Close childhood friend
Best friend
New friend
Family friend
Classmate
Teammate
Colleague /
Co-worker
Roommate /
Housemate
Girl friend /
Boy friend
Acquaintance

9. Everyone’s friend is no one’s friend.
PROVERBS
Everyone’s friend is no one’s friend.
Italian Proverb

10. Cooked at one stirring makes friends too easily.
Chinese Proverb

11. Friends are made in wine and proven in tears.
German Proverb

12. When husband and wife agree, they will be able to dry up the oceans with buckets.
Vietnamese Proverb

13. To those we love best, we say the least.
Filipino Proverb

14. Jewish Proverb
Roman Proverb

15. The Impressions of American Friendship:
- have casual friendship with many people, but deeper and closer friendship with only a few
- may be horribly superficial

16. The Expectation of a Close Friend
Sympathy
Same interests
Good understanding

17. DIVERSITY IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
In relation to gender

18. Practical reason: Some people can live together because they feel they are compatible as roommates or housemates.

19. Marriage:
Some married men and women consider themselves best friends as well as spouses.
Remarriage has no stigma in the US.

20. THE SINGLES SCENE

21. How do singles meet each other ?
Mutual friends
Parties
Work
Religious groups
Various dating services …

22. Cross- Cultural Expectations for Friendship
value privacy and independence
show interest and concern in a friend's serious problems
discover whether they have shared values and interests
need privacy to "work out" a problem
know what to do for each other

23. Benefits of Cross-cultural Contact
Help people break down isolation and stereotypes
Have opportunities to practice language skills
Have clues in deeply understanding the culture in which they live

24. Conclusion