Gestures across cultures 

we watched this for a class lol

This clip is from the BBC TV series "The Human Animal" ("Episode 01: The Language of the Body")

I'm from morocco, and have never seen two people shaking hands as such.

yeah that middle finger explanation is total nonsense

Quite incredible how humans have revolved and have adapted new and extremely significant gestures that truly are important because they can demonstrate the type of person you are and be distinguished between educated or vulgar to society thank you body language !!!!

Great video. Thanks

excellent video for studying sociolinguistics and cultural anthro

Had to watch this video for school this is amazing I never though about how hands and fingers could mean 2 different things in the world.

Great vid!

Really is a fantastic video

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

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.

Great video!

Starting my own body language channel, and this vid will help me with the next class of learning different about gestures in different cultures.

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

can you please upload the whole video?

fascinating video! is it possible to purchase this in whole?

Very Cool. Makes me want to travel more.

Interesting video.

great video! thanks!

I'm here because of my class

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.

Totally fascinating!

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

is that kevin spacey??

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

@putitallontheline Perhaps you could split it into 10 min parts?

Thanks for sharing this interesting topic!

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

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

good informative video

The middle finger

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help is this maraco o r moroco

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