About 600 people also got their picture taken for the campaign of Wereldsolidariteit- " the power of people togheter". See below! fee xx
Monday, May 14, 2007
Mano Mundo
This weekend Wereldsolidariteit (the NGO I'm working for) organised Mano Mundo, a free intercultural festival, along with several other Belgian NGO's. It drew over 50.000 people to its site in Boom; the performances were great, the cocktails delicious and the atmosphere excellent. I went to see some bands and also took part in a salsa initiation (the salsa and the merengue- Patrick Swayze wasn't there but I managed fine :-) ).
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Volgens de krant waren er wel 60.000 en regende het pijpenstelen...
Je ziet er al heel Filippijns uit..
You're definitely not Japanese..
... Culture is a huge factor in determining whether we look someone in the eye or the kisser to interpret facial expressions, according to a new study. For instance, in Japan, people tend to look to the eyes for emotional cues, whereas Americans tend to look to the mouth, says researcher Masaki Yuki, a behavioral scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan. This could be because the Japanese, when in the presence of others, try to suppress their emotions more than Americans do, he said. In any case, the eyes are more difficult to control than the mouth, he said, so they probably provide better clues about a person's emotional state even if he or she is trying to hide it.
Japanese people tend to shy away from overt displays of emotion, and rarely smile or frown with their mouths, Yuki explained, because the Japanese culture tends to emphasize conformity, humbleness and emotional suppression, traits that are thought to promote better relationships.
So when Yuki entered graduate school and began communicating with American scholars over e-mail, he was often confused by their use of emoticons such as smiley faces :) and sad faces, or :(. In Japan, emoticons tend to emphasize the eyes, such as the happy face (^_^) and the sad face (;_;).
(Chris Vanhuyse)
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