- Gift giving and receiving in most official situations, while not considered necessary, does help to generate good feelings. It tends to be a common practice in .
- In most cases these are just “token” gifts, something that represents the country one is from, or something the receiving party might find interesting – but NOT something overly expensive or given with the obvious aim of unduly influencing the other party. For example, if one is from New York he/she could bring a Yankees baseball cap or jacket, or if one is from Arizona he/she could bring a T-shirt with a picture of the Grand Canyon or a Hopi Kachina doll, etc.
- Gifts are to generally opened in front of people, in order to show the room that good-will has been established and that the receiver can appreciate the gesture, UNLESS the giver states that, “this is something better to be opened at home.”
- Anything extraordinarily expensive that gives the appearance of “buying” the other party’s cooperation – or anything overtly sexual in nature – is considered inappropriate.
- Gifts should be wrapped.
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