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Costa Rica Business Etiquette Tips
Business etiquette for doing business in Costa Rica
- If you are invited for dinner to a home, bring flowers, chocolates, scotch, or wine. Do not bring calla lilies; they are associated with funerals
- Since Costa Ricans allow themselves only a limited time for their midday break, everyone is expected to be on time for a business lunch.
- Politics are more freely discussed here than in other Latin American regions because of the stability there.
- Don’t discuss religion at business meetings. Just don’t.
- Making a fist with the thumb sticking out between the middle and index fingers is obscene. This gesture is known as the "fig"
- ALWAYS shake hands at a business meeting.
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