Secondly, drinks are served differently in Saudi Arabia than other cultures. One very interesting example of that is the way people serve the traditional coffee to guests where they use small cups in that. In Arabic culture acts say more than word do, if you fill up the cup of coffee for some one it culturally means “drink it and go away, we do not want you around in our place” which is very rude, however, if you fill up half of it means “stay and ask for more coffee, we want you around us and we are enjoying you being our guest”, that’s why everyone serving the coffee is very careful from putting more than the half because it would be rude for the person drinking the coffee. Another thing is when you are finished with the coffee you have to shake the cup if you do not want more coffee otherwise the host will keep giving you coffee till it finished.