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Re:Eye Contact by mmagin on Sunday December 20, 2009 @03:34PM (#1006536)
On the other hand, the stock photo on that page is a good example of somewhere the French don't make eye contact -- on the Metro.

I am told it has something to do with the fact that you don't have a choice in being there, so people want the illusion of privacy.

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Re:Eye Contact by joss82 on Sunday December 20, 2009 @06:35PM (#1006786)
It may has to do with adaptation in human behavior when others enters their "personal space", in a crowded metro train, for example.
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