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What percentage of the population would have any idea what that hand signal (or any hand signal) means? Other than extremely common things like the middle finge
by irrational 5y ago
What percentage of the population would have any idea what that hand signal (or any hand signal) means? Other than extremely common things like the middle finger, of course.
- klyrs 5y agoCuriously, the middle finger has been used as a duress signal by prisoners of war: http://www.usspueblo.org/Prisoners/The_Digit_Affair.html http://www.usspueblo.org/Prisoners/The_Digit_Affair.html
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThat was prisoners in North Korea at a time of much less intercultural contact. It might still work -- in North Korea -- today, or it might not. It could not possibly work anywhere else.
- klyrs 5y agoIndeed, times have changed. The whole world consumes American media. Despite this, my brother and I were able to have coded conversations in a European hostel (where everybody spoke English fluently) using shared anecdotes (Shaka, when the walls fell). We weren't in duress, but not all is lost for people who are.
- ryanmercer 5y agoProbably not very many, I've never heard of "domestic violence hand signals".
- robbrown451 5y agoWell now you have.
- labster 5y agoAnd knowing is half the battle.
- beambot 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help > The Signal for Help was introduced by the Canadian Women's Foundation on April 14, 2020. Behavior change & language development take time.