How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)

Re:How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015) by Broken_Hippo on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:31AM (#13966011)

There are a lot of examples of the differing meaning of a smile when you google it. Sometimes it is simply not appropriate to smile. I'm not sure if there are any culture that sees them as entirely evil, but a few do have a concept of an evil grin, a concept that sits alongside the smiles being friendly. It doesn't seem to be a stretch that a mistimed smile might make you look like a loon and other such differing beliefs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/culture-... https://blog.allpsych.com/smiling-means-different-things-in-... https://www.translatemedia.com/us/blog-us/the-meaning-of-a-s...

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Re:How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015) by shiz on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:53AM (#13966297)

Of course, when someone tells you his mother died and you smile like an idiot, it surely will not create a positive effect.

The way I understood OP, it seemed as if - in a normal setting - smiling would be frowned upon when talking to people in general in some places... which I find hard to believe.

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