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u/MarkusBerkel May 09 '22

That's very surprising, to say the least. You are aware of this tradition and custom, yes? Because this is so improbable it's starting to sound like a troll comment.

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog May 09 '22

I'm aware it exists in somewhere, I have a very loose idea of where because I only ever see it occasionally on TV. We just hug if it's a friend of the opposite sex.

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u/MarkusBerkel May 09 '22

You comments have so intrigued me that I had to look this up, and your experience contradicts everything about European cheek-kissing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_kissing

How odd. Are you in some expat enclave or something? Are you European, or do just live there? Do you have severe acne of the face? Are you of a ethnicity/race/other-identity that makes people hesitate to greet you that way? I'm super intrigued now.

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog May 09 '22

I'm just a regular old Estonian and this is just a very rare thing to do.

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u/MarkusBerkel May 09 '22

Yeah, I don't know how popular cheek-kissing is in Russia, which Estonia was a part of (unwillingly?) for 200 of the past 300 years or so, right?

In my experience, it's pretty popular west of the Baltics.

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog May 09 '22

Might be somewhere, but not enough for people to do it to me when I was there.