This is not a cultural thred but a light hearted look at peoples across the world and how they are similar.
In the book the Historian, by Elizabeth Kosteva, she writes that Bulgarians shake their head sideays when they mean “yes” and up and down when they mean “no”. I am fascinated by this..because all throughout my scholarly research I always thought that only south Indians did that. this is indeed an amazing find of cross pollination of cultural affectations that would seem to be not there simply from a geography standpoint. Ha any one heard of others?
For example…both the South Koreans and the Fins are depolorably depressing people. Nothing ot do with their surroundings, alcohol, etc..they just are.
It’s so intensely disconcerting. Try sitting with a Telegu contractor explaining the database changes you need, and be faced with a whole load of what looks like disapproving side-to-side head shaking!
What about South Indians, they shake their heads and hands to put more emphasis on whatever they are talking about. I had to physically retrain "bala" our IT consultant once becasue the fker made me dizzy; his head and hands were moving faster than his tongue. I am Sure Liz Kostova covered that in a seperate volume.
Be very wary of desis who come up to you at random when you're at the mall, bookstore, grocery shopping, etc. most likely they are one of those Quixtar fkers who want you to get in their money grabbing scams. Why are Indians so into these pyramid schemes?
Pindi,
What amazes me is that the sheer numbers of these Indians in pyramid schemes like Amway and Quixtar, and that fact that these Indians are smart, intelligent, educated people who are in IT, medical, business, and other highly qualified fields.
r u sure they weren’t Romanians? 
