Gestures across cultures

[MarielynetteJohnson]

There's no mention of the eyebrow-smile expression of greeting. I did not know of this universal gesture till I was told. Whenever you recognize someone at a distance, you (1) raise & lower your eyebrows, (2) smile at him.

[tinachen1019]

can someone tell me who is the speaker, and what's his name? please:)

[natynix]

we watched this for a class lol

[sumanchat86]

I am from the northern part of India. Initially the Yes and the No gestures were very confusing to me when I cane to the southern part of the country. I used to think every Yes as a No. Here people wobble their head for Yes as well as for No. :D

[SpookyFoxes]

Can I know what this is, or what it is called. I would like to cite it for a research project, but I would need to know the name of the actual video, and who made it originally.

[JacqBLUEjay]

Thanks, always good to know for travelers and when receiving foreign guests.

[RobbiePaulPeeters]

Great vid!

[typo6t]

In Bulgaria, it was really wierd that, you ask a waitress for coffee and she leaves shaking her head, so you go "well perhaps they dont have coffee" after a couple minutes, she brings your coffee.. Takes some time getting used to it.

in addition, in Turkey, if you make a circle with your thumb and pointer, showing your palm to the other person, it means "OK", "good", if you do it showing the back of your hand to the other person, it means queer, fag...

[typo6t]

I like this:) lol i m Turkish and its so true that you can see villagers shaking hands in this prolonged ridiculous way during negotiations. It s not really in real life in cities though, mostly a tradition thing that is about to die out. Oh and the arm thrust insult, the insult is not the ARM but the fingers there. He pokes his thumb out between his pointer and middle finger while making a fist. This gesture symbolises *cough* copulation. Also i bet he got a beating for doing that....

[lupischuckle]

Great video!

[arturomunoz95]

wow we use alot of gestures that could confuse us as americans in other countries

[FiftyTonBullet]

Very Cool. Makes me want to travel more.

[radd973]

i used this topic for a demonstrative speech in my english class - it went over big

[ariris100]

Wonderful, great. I have been using this to show students while teaching a unit which I wrote on cross cultural gestures. I am an EFL teacher in Israel.

[Olav999]

DESMOND MORRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[waysmartsolutions]

great video! thanks!

[72grantorino]

Really is a fantastic video

[KamyarM]

thank you for uploading

[monica37909]

Awesome video! This should be getting more views! VERY informative.

[MiTm4x]

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[putitallontheline]

yes. i cant upload the whole vid cause it's youtube.

[estetty]

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[putitallontheline]

haha. glad you liked it!

[kali972]

I hadn't finished the video when I wrote my first comment...stil haven't finished it yet but I had to write that I finally have my answer about the nodding head of indians!It was quite disturbing to me!thx again!bye!

[kali972]

Very interesting, thank you!!More people should watch it!!