Introduction Meaning of V sign in lots of

Ø Introduction Ø Meaning of V sign in lots of countries Ø My family V sign meaning and values Ø Compare and Contrast chart Ø How to respect Ø Resources

Immigrants, travellers, visitors and other please be careful, around the world gestures can be unfamiliar or offensive things for those who don’t know you better this. Even a same gestures it can have a very different meaning, like giving v sign it can be a victory meaning for American, but how about Australian it’s an insult. If you want to know more about this important KNOWLEDGE for sign and hand gestures around the world, please take your time to read it.

Ø V sign is for victory Ø United use V sign for peace Ø V sign is victory because the first letter is v and the palm need to face to the people

ü V sign is insulting gesture if we show it to other people ü V is for insulting if the palm is facing to us, it is used as a gesture of abuse or insult

v. They want by cigarette by doing v sign v v is for cigarette because they smoke using a v sign to hold the cigarette when they breathe in they pull the cigarette that way

For my family it has 4 meaning but usually it is only for two meaning which is number two and posting for taking picture. We don’t matter is the palm is facing where because there is no meaning for it. So we can do any gestures we like except the middle finger in my family because it is the same as you are not polite, and polite is one of my family values as well.

Compare and Contrast Chart Indonesian(my Culture) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Victory Peace Cheese(for photos) Number 2 Palm facing anywhere Italian 1. Cigarette please 2. Cigar please 3. The way the smoke American 1. Victory 2. Peace 3. Palm facing to the people We use hand gestures to show something to other They have the same gestures Australian 1. Insulting 2. Abusing 3. Palm facing to us

• Be open minded by • accepting other culture • Sharing Ideas • • Try to try new things (food, drinks, ect)by • following them If people tell you if it is not the right way of showing the gesture get used and practice their gestures Try not to fight or argue with the people that they think are wrong We can accept and tell each other a little bit of our own culture so we can learn new things together

Blogs. transparent. com/english/some-common -american-hand-gestures/ En. wikipedia. org/wiki/v_sign reswww. theguardian. com/world/shortcuts/20 13/jul/02/how-to-speak-italian-with-gestu