This seems pretty overblown to me. Basically any hand gesture is an obscene insult in Greece? Maybe someone native wants to offer some perspective?
Yeah don’t worry, this is pretty bs. The only one that’s kinda accurate is number 4 but with outstretched fingers, not stuck together. And even that is slowly being fazed out in favor of the middle finger.
Greeks sound like very contentious people.
Greek here: you just made an enemy for life ✌️
/s
I’m Australian and I have never heard of the peace sign meaning up yours
I doubt the accuracy of the information in this
I think they’re getting confused with a similar sign. If you do the peace sign sweeping the fingers upward but with the back of your hand facing the person then that means up yours. Or at least it did when I was younger.
peace sign is forward, up yours is backward. definitely slipped out of australian use in the last few decades at least, but people who were around for the pound might remember.
If someone signaled to me the backwards V, all I would think is “do they think I’m British?”
So Greece has a problem. Well 👍
Yeah if everything is offensive in one specific place it’s suspicious
Brit here, the V sign has two different meanings dependant on which side of the fingers is shown. If the palm side is shown then it’s the same peace sign, if it’s the other side then it’s offensive.
Tineye tracks this image back to 2017 and Pimsleur is old school in every way (including factoids) so the info behind it could easily be a last minute drunken assignment from 50 years ago.
We’re a lot more globalized and everyone has been exposed to the America “character” through mass media since then. My advice to American tourists is to stop comparing everything to “back home” and to realise you are constantly breaking taboos but your hosts are too polite to tell you. And to remember this when the similarily offend you.
I am a turkish person and no the “ok” sign doesn’t mean something like that
From Belgium, never heard of what they’re stating there either
Gotta agree with the Filipinos on number 6 its like calling a dog to heel and its intentionally demeaning.
Tbh I just assumed it was what Americans were constantly doing to Filipinos when they were an American colony.
LMAO were the fuck someone gonna be mad at “ok” in brasil
I’m pretty sure a middle finger could get you in trouble abroad
#3 is also a dog whistle for white supremacy…WP too…boo racists.
Edit: why’s mine big?
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“Haha they think this a white supremacist symbol now, I’m such a troll, dumb libs!”- White supremacists, using it as a symbol.
Out of curiosity, in which parts of Australia is the V sign insulting? I’d only recognise it as an insult because I grew up watching British sitcoms, I’ve never seen it used that way in person.
The idea that I can’t throw up devil horns at a Wig Wam concert just doesn’t compute to me.
Also, don’t make the crip sign in criplandia
