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Newspaper Article
To Hug, or Not to Hug, That Is the Question
2005
Overview
\"Just don't take a hug too far,\" he warns. \"If a hug becomes a mug, then you've got problems. You just have to know what that line is.\" \"What often happens when you meet somebody the first time, the other people you already know, so you hug them, and then you say, `I'm going to have to hug you too,' \" he says. Otherwise, he says, if the new guy has his hand out, ready for a firm clench, \"what I will normally do is say, `Hey, I'm a hugger, not a shaker,' and basically take my hug.\" \"If I was greeting a white guy, I would probably never go for the hug, it would always immediately be the handshake,\" says [Mark Anthony Neal], author of the just-released book \"New Black Man,\" about black masculinity in the 21st century. \"In the case of black males, particularly around my age, 40, it's the hip-hop hug: a handshake, you pull yourselves together, and you bump.\"
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Halifax Media Group
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