Chinese Farewell

In farewells among the Chinese part of Encountering the Chinese, the author states the interesting differences between the American style and Chinese style. The whole farewell generally consists of two phases, initiate the idea and actually depart.
It is said, the Americans generally makes a large time gap between the two phases, while the Chinese just go in the immediate way. The causes of the departures varies too. It also relates to the individualism and collectivism. During the phase two, the hosts also treats in different ways too, in the American way, the host just simply gives the waves, while the Chinese may give a long companion and continue to converse.

Comments:
1. The etiquette in farewell can be also discussed along with the Chinese social culture and core value as well. As result, the farewell may be classified and fit into different social groups bonded with either working relationships or family relationships or friendships. So, the farewell scenario depicted may not happen every where or every time. That actually depends on how close the friends are. If not so close, I think the American style will typically adopted with socially warm farewell.
2. Another thing I would like to say, is about the housing structure and layout. Unlike U.S., Chinese agriculture and collectivism determines the close relationship in the community in the countryside. They know meet each other every day and meet each other very well. The doors in many houses in the countryside may just left open during the day. Also, they do not have reliable transportation if they are paying a long visit. So the host's companion can be viewed as caring more about the visitor for security consideration.
However, with rapid developments, many places have built lots of tall housing buildings, and people does not know each other so well even they are in the same building. So, the social bonds between each other is quite different now. If just social farewell, people are more and more used to the American style.