tags: Guide to Asian Emoticons, online life, cute, Japan, culture, silly, big boobs, streaming video
This is a rather silly guide to Asian emoticons .. except the emoticons I am seeing in this video are Japanese .. is Japan the emoticon capital of the Asian world? Hrm. Anyway, the straight boyz in the audience will especially like this video -- need I say more? =^.^=
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From the Chronicle News Blog...
Have you wondered if the subtle and not so subtle differences in the way people, say from India and USA, conduct themselves? Differences in facial expressions, walking, use of emoticons in writing...
The emoticon for "smile" in most western cultures is this :). One of the ScienceBloggers does it backwards (: (can you guess who?), but the symbol is essentially the same. In Japan, however, the smile is depicted like this: ^_^.
I would like to quote the middle panel of this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/11/
Also, nice clip.