Codex•Mundi A scholarly atlas of the senses lost when crossing borders

← Hand gestures

Les doigts croisés (chance ou mensonge)

Souhait de chance en Europe ; obscénité au Viêt Nam, où il évoque un sexe féminin.

Under developmentMisunderstanding

Category : Hand gesturesSubcategory : superstitionConfidence level : 3/5 (documented hypothesis)Identifier : e0037

Geography of misunderstanding

Offensive

  • vietnam
  • thailand
  • indonesia
  • malaysia
  • philippines
  • singapore
  • myanmar
  • cambodia
  • laos

Neutral

  • france
  • belgium
  • netherlands
  • luxembourg
  • usa
  • canada
  • uk
  • ireland

Not documented

  • peuples-autochtones
  • afrique-est-centrale

Full description

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Souhait de chance en Europe ; obscénité au Viêt Nam, où il évoque un sexe féminin.

Sources

  1. Morris, D., Collett, P., Marsh, P., & O'Shaughnessy, M. (1979). Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution. Stein & Day / Jonathan Cape.
  2. Axtell, R. E. (1998). Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World (revised edition). John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Matsumoto, D. & Hwang, H.C. (2013). Cultural similarities and differences in emblematic gestures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37(1), 1-27. — ↗