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post #31 of 37
4/12/03 at 3:43am
Lew, thanks for the confirmation.

Holadem, I'm embarrassed to say this, having read many of your posts over the past year, but I'm sorry to ask: which is your country? I vaguely recall it's African, but beyond that I don't know.

I think even the Chinese have something about that as well, forcing leftys to become rightys, although I'm not too sure why, probably more something to do with bad luck rather than "cleanliness" issues which I've never heard of.

oh, and one more thing about the soles of the foot/shoes: I understand even showing the sole to someone is considered rude in some cultures; hence one particular High Court Judge here actually gets his security guard to tell anyone sitting at the back in the public gallery to uncross their legs if they happen to sit that way -- happened to me once :b
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post #32 of 37
4/12/03 at 6:25am
Wouldn't it be easier for Chinese to be left-handed? We were always made to write right to left in my Mandarin class.
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post #33 of 37
4/12/03 at 6:55am
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forcing leftys to become rightys, although I'm not too sure why

Two words: miltary service. All the equipment is right handed.
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post #34 of 37
4/12/03 at 8:03am
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I understand even showing the sole to someone is considered rude in some cultures
Yes, this is true. I forget the explanation (and I wish I could remember more), but I learned a great deal of these things when I attended a class on customs.

I was working at the Special Olympics as a "Greeter" and there were many people there from all over the world and we had to take a class to learn what "Not" to do so as not to offend anyone. The left hand thing was mentioned and showing the bottom your shoe was also mentioned...I just wish I can remember the others.
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post #35 of 37
4/12/03 at 8:33am
Chinese isn't written right to left anymore. at least not in China, not sure if Taiwan still clings to the old conventions.

even in the old conventions, it was top to bottom first, and then right to left, so you'd have vertical columns of text which you read from top to bottom, and the next column was to the left of the first one, i.e. right to left.
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post #36 of 37
4/12/03 at 9:24am
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Two words: miltary service. All the equipment is right handed.


Actually this isn't true. Things like bayonets, hand grenades, and entrenching tools are ambidexterous. And rifles are more correlated to eye-dominance than hand-dominence. I'm left handed but shoot "right handed" because I'm right eyed.
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post #37 of 37
4/12/03 at 9:34am
I didn't mean all as in 100% all encompassing. They were much more concerned with tanks and aircraft control than small arms. It was not a practice exclusive to China, it was common throughout the Commi block.
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