
Quickie
October 28, 2009I was browsing through my dad’s ‘China’ National Geographic magazine yesterday and I read about something cool.
Western and Eastern people express their emotions differently. Even if we have the 6 common expressions in the world – happiness, sadness, anger, fear, shock and disgust, the eastern people uses their eyes rather than their mouth in terms of expressing how they feel. You can see a lot of these in Chinese soap Operas and Bruce Lee shows. Also in manga.
For the same reason, that’s why western emoticons are like
,
, :p, XD,
;
where else, Asians, mainly Japanese, express their emotions like : ^_^; , ToT , #^.^# , n_n , O_O , ~_^ , u_u , ?_? , >.< , ^o^ , *_*
So how do I feel at the moment?
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T.T…………………..T.T…………………………..T.T…………………………….T.T………………………….
T.T T.T T.T T.T T.T
back to work.
good point ^o^
true enough ^^
my faves are
^^
OwO
OAO
>_3<
mind is always T.T. because that’s the first emoticon I learned.