From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 18:48:35 MDT
On 2002.08.23, Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > http://www.amara.com/neverunderestimate.jpg
I recently saw a whole series of these HSBC advertisements along the
walls in JFK International Airport. Very cute marketing campaign, I
must say.
> Well, for one thing, facial expressions are rather universal,
> anthropologists tell us. (I'm guessing that they don't mean *all*
> facial expressions.)
For some tongue-in-cheek counter-evidence against this ... just look at
the wide variety of facial expressions people make during sex. Hardly
universal, I'd say ...
> And surely throughout Europe shaking your head means 'yes' and nodding
> means 'no', no? (I once heard that in some exotic land they mean
> exactly opposite.)
I can't say for sure, but I heard that in China (or somewhere
thereabouts) "red" means "go" while "green" means "stop" which is the
reverse of what most people understand those traffic colors to mean.
This could be total nonsense as it's unconfirmed rumor.
I also heard that the thumbs-up gesture in some culture (I can't
remember which) is the equivalent to the American "flipping the bird"
gesture of the middle finger. Talk about a quick way to innocently
offend folks when traveling abroad ...
-- Dossy
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