visit
A visit is the temporary visit to the whereabouts of one or more people or the temporary visit to a place or an institution by one or more visitors on their own initiative .
General
If the person is invited, one speaks of a guest . This is common in service companies such as restaurants or hotels , in which visitors are always referred to as guests in order to emphasize the fundamental desirability of their visit (see passenger , passenger ). At exhibitions , festivals , concerts , trade fairs and in museums , people usually speak of visitors, while at conferences they speak of participants . The visit is usually chargeable, there is an entrance fee. In libraries one speaks more of users . Where there are many visitors, visiting times usually regulate their stay.
While a guest is usually a welcome person, a visitor can also be undesirable ("intruder"). In prisons, prisoners can also receive visitors at set times.
mythology
In ancient Greece, the (foreign) "guest" ( xénos ) was under the protection of the supreme god Zeus ( Zeús Xénios ).
Visiting relatives, friends and neighbors
Visiting relatives , friends, and neighbors are based on social relationships as part of private life . These visits can, for example, be a form of cultivating relationships, socializing or social support .
Courtesy call
The courtesy call or courtesy visit is to first social one waiting for someone, standards to be observed and not from a personal relationship with someone.
purpose
Marie Calm writes about this in her book Die Sitten der Gute Gesellschaft , published in 1888 : “ The propriety visit or the“ visit ”, as they used to say, to distinguish this short visit from other longer ones, has the purpose of enhancing the relationships between people who are sociable Commune with each other, maintain them and, on special occasions, express their participation in each other. "
On the reasons for making courtesy visits, Count and Countess Baudissin write in Spemann's golden book of custom (Berlin, Stuttgart, 1901): “ The reason that prompts us to make a courtesy visit can be very different. Either it is an initial visit, a thank you visit for an invitation you have received, you feel obliged to express your congratulations or condolences, you have something special on your mind, or it is important to get away from the house in which you are Earlier to say goodbye as a result of a departure or a transfer. "
diplomacy
In addition to the official state visits , the courtesy visit can also be found in higher government circles. If two nations have established diplomatic contact , but nothing else to communicate with each other, the heads of government will still make courtesy visits to the other nation. If the sending nation does not consider the diplomatic relationship to be very important, it sends a representative in place of its head of government.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Calm, Marie, The Morals of Good Society, 6. Sociable Forms, Visits, and Visiting Cards . In: zeno.org .
- ↑ Baudissin, Wolf Graf and Eva Gräfin, Spemanns goldenes Buch der Sitte, Buch der Sitte, outside the house, 2nd visits . In: zeno.org .
- ↑ From Max Böhnel, New York: July 10, 2009: Modest visit with ulterior motives (neue-deutschland.de) . In: neue-deutschland.de .