Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

>So there'd be cultures where a smile would be considered hostile etc?
Or at least less than honest intent. Which is why most cultural
anthropologists were taught to adopt a neutral expression for first contact
with a "new" culture.

>I've read in a great number of places that things like smiles and frowns
>are
>common to all humans, but I don't know how reliable those sources are.
As far as I know, the only  expressioon, which approaches being common to
all cultures, is the involuntary raising of eyebrows upon initially seeing
someone whom the individual recognises.

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