Many of the everyday hand gestures, such as OK or thumbs up, have different meanings in different countries and regions. Please listen to Lina's explanation.

"More interestingly, we demonstrate that people from different cultures use gestures differently due to varying rhetorical styles and different ways of constructing a story." Together with Prof ...

Not every hand gesture ... multiple meanings at home, too — in recent years, the OK symbol has been linked with white supremacy groups. Never cross your fingers in Vietnam In most cultures ...

Yet there was a historically significant time when art and culture, and poetry ... immediately and freeingly different from the other earth-bound, ‘demi-plié’-d, religious storytelling ...

Likewise, gestures we take for granted, such as the frequently used "thumbs up" have completely different connotations ... Middle Eastern cultures also reading the gesture to mean "up yours!" ...