Parting tradition

Parting traditions or parting customs are various traditions, customs, and habits used by people to acknowledge the parting of individuals or groups of people from each other.

Parting traditions are highly culture-, situation- and interpersonal specific and may change within a culture depending on social status and personal relationship.

Parting traditions include parting phrases, parting gestures, as well as parting ceremonies and rituals of various degree of complexity.

Some phrases and gestures may be used both for greeting and for parting.

Gestures

gollark: Do you *not* like open source software?
gollark: But the thing is, you've already *done* the work, other people could benefit from it, and if it's private and you tell nobody about it you can hardly expect to get much back.
gollark: Me too!
gollark: *Vaguely* bees, possibly.
gollark: > and I don't want someone to use my hard workthat is somewhat bees.

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