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Courtesies Rise when ranking guests enter and remain standing until they are seated; as you sit, reserve right end of the sofa for ranking guests.
Departures from events are according to rank and precedence: You should remain at any dinner party (U.S. or foreign) until all persons of all nationalities who outrank you have departed.
With regard to the ambassador and/or spouse, always rise when he or she enters the room and remain standing until he or she is seated (this is a usual deference to age and responsibility.)
At a small function, remain until he or she leaves. At a large function, make your departure known to the ambassador. However, never be the employee whose departure would leave the Ambassador or spouse alone.
Accompany him or her to the car when he or she is leaving your home. Escort him or her all the way so that he or she is never without protection.
One always observes rules of rising, sitting, introduction, and departures in any situation of mixed nationalities–no matter how junior the host/hostess.
Enter a car first and move to far side or go quickly and enter on the far side so that the higher ranking person can sit on curb side. The ambassador and spouse are last in and first out in vehicles of transportation.
Going through doorways, however, they go in first and out first. Learn local social customs. For example: Generally the woman extends her hand first in shaking hands–except where she is not expected to shake hands at all.
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