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Interesting. I'll have to find some of these videos. I worked customer service in the early 2000s. We were trained to never let a customer be in a situation where they would need to say "thank you," and that we should thank them. This was in Canada, by the way. If we did get a thanks, we would never say, "you're welcome." We would say something like, "don't worry about it."
In France, where I live now, in some of the situations mentioned in the article the response would be a simple "c'est moi," meaning, "it's me who thanks you." In a restaurant setting the waiter might just answer with "bon appétit."
Thanks for this share, because I teach international business and communication and this will be an excellent subject for discussion.
We have our "c'est moi" in Brazil as well: "eu que agradeço". Honestly, mmhmm is what seems alien to me.
It sounds absurdly rude if not sarcastic to me, I think I'd rather even a sarcastic "you're welcome" than that because at least it sounds like the person acknowledged your gratitude. Really, if you're gonna use "mmhmm" you might as well just stay silent.