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There are a lot of examples of the differing meaning of a smile when you google it. Sometimes it is simply not appropriate to smile. I'm not sure if there are a
by Broken_Hippo 10y ago
There are a lot of examples of the differing meaning of a smile when you google it. Sometimes it is simply not appropriate to smile. I'm not sure if there are any culture that sees them as entirely evil, but a few do have a concept of an evil grin, a concept that sits alongside the smiles being friendly. It doesn't seem to be a stretch that a mistimed smile might make you look like a loon and other such differing beliefs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/culture-and-smiling/483827/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/culture-...
https://blog.allpsych.com/smiling-means-different-things-in-different-cultures/ https://blog.allpsych.com/smiling-means-different-things-in-...
https://www.translatemedia.com/us/blog-us/the-meaning-of-a-smile-in-different-cultures/ https://www.translatemedia.com/us/blog-us/the-meaning-of-a-s...
- shiz 10y agoOf course, when someone tells you his mother died and you smile like an idiot, it surely will not create a positive effect. The way I understood OP, it seemed as if - in a normal setting - smiling would be frowned upon when talking to people in general in some places... which I find hard to believe.