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Originally posted by Mnjul
# What is your gender?
# (Optional) Your age and what do you do by occupation?
# Where are you from (country and where in the country) ?
# What is/are your native language(s)?
# When you are talking, how far away do you usually stand (or sit) from people? Please give your answers for
1. family members
2. intimate friends
3. normal acquaintances
4. strangers
respectively.
# When you are talking, do you (consciously) touch the people you are talking to? If yes, how frequently? Please give your answers for
1. family members
2. intimate friends
3. normal acquaintances
4. strangers
respectively.
# Continued: If people touch more frequently (than the answer you gave in the last question), how do you feel?
# In your culture, do people usually look at others when in an elevator?
# In your culture, do people try hard not to touch others when in an moderately-to-much-crowded elevator?
# Do you look people in the eyes when you are talking to them? Note your answer may vary depending on whom you are talking to; please give your answer as detailedly as possible.
# In your culture, do people maintain frequent (yet not excessive) eye contact when talking to others?
# In your culture, what do people do non-verbally, when they first meet someone new? (for example, exchanging handshakes, bowing, ...etc)
# Give your ideas about the special meanings (if any) of the following hand/body gestures and facial expressions in your culture:
1. The OK sign: forefinger and the tumb joining a circle
2. Crossing your fingers
3. Shurgging your shoulders
4. Winking
1) Male
2) Im 18 years old and im a student. Im currently doing my engineering in Information technology
3) Im an Indian and i basically come from the southern state of Kerla but ive been in Mumbai (Bombay) my whole life
4) My native language is Hindi which is India's national language. Besides that i also know some local languages (Marathi) and Sanskrit which as many of you may know is the base for various languages. Even tho i know these languages i have done my education in English and it is my lanuage of choice
5) A) About about 2 feet.
B) In the closest seat i can get. Sitting next to them or standing beside them
C) Two and a half to three feet
D) Three to four feet. Well almost the same as the above case actually
6) No i dont (usually; in general ie).
A) Every 2 - 5 mins
B) Same as above
C) Rarely
D) Once in a blue moon (rarely^2
)
7) Erm it feels good to hold someone and hug them (your loved ones ... not random ppl on the road =P) i guess
8) We dont have many elevators in India but no (unless its someone you know in which case you'd be talking to them)
9) Nope. We just stand in the elevator. It may be only about 4 - 8 floors so who cares
10) Most definately. Looking into someones eyes reveals a lot. If its someone close to you then yup. If its an acquaintance then you may or maynot. Its more like on and off. You look at their faces then their eyes back and forth most of the time. And for someone stranger, well you just look at their faces and talk. You look into their eyes but not as much.
11) Yes they do. It brings about a feeling of togetherness
12) Traditionally people greet each other by joining their hands and bowing (slightly) and saying "namaste" (for more you might consider googling it) But now a days, atleast for me, i havent done that in years cause i live in the biggest city in the country so we just greet each other by a "hi" (for friends and relatives) or a "good morning/afterrnoon/evening" (for everyone) and we tend to shake hands while greeting each other now and then (but thats only for your friends and relatives). But the most common way of greeting someone you know well (friend) is "hi/hey" and mabbe attaching a wave with it
13) A) Everything is perfect
Its pretty much like the 
(no wait .... scrap that ) Its almost never used btw
B) Its like when you want something done and you say "im hoping that i get to do this" and your friends say "im keeping my fingers crossed"
It is also used for a small game that children play called "statue" Its like when ever you see your friend, he/she and you should have your fingers/ any other limb crossed. Else the other one can say "statue" and you have to stand like that till he releases you from that position .... silly games children play
(*whistle* i used to play that *whistle*)
C) It usually signals "I dont know" or "beats me"
D) Its a dogdy way to hit on someone (winking at girls) (and is rarely used
) or usually it is used to signal something to someone like you and your friend are planning to pull of a prank on another friend. So you can wink him to signal him to start the operation of the plan
I havent used bbcode cause i think the way i have written it, is pretty self explanatory. Feel free to remove the emotes and the comments in the brackets (Not all of them are comments btw
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I hope this helps you
And i cant believe you have to write all this ... i have this in the next sem lol. I cant wait to get to the second year so i can have subjects only related to my field
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