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Italy (Body Language)

Italy is a country that has a great diversity of body languages; I would like to talk about the meaning of some of their gestures.

I found interesting, that some gestures with the head and hand have a totally different meaning than I knew before; I read an article which talked about some gestures, basically the “texas longhorn sign” has a particular meaning for them, if you do that in Italy, you will be insulting someone else, because it means that your hubby/boyfriend is cheating on you. That is way too different than we’re used to, because you will never think about it, and maybe you see somebody is doing that, and for you it will be completely fine, well, my opinion about that sign is that you love rock, and it relates to the devil, but in Italy it has a different story.

Another common and quite used gesture is when you put your 5 fingers tips together, for them that is a particular way to say “what the heck are you talking about?”.

With these 2 gestures, I would like to point out that in Italy words are sometimes not needed, when you can play with the body language.

In summary, it is important to be aware of these gestures and their meanings in different countries and even provinces or regions of the same country… You never know if the gesture you’re making could offend anyone.