Yeah, my understanding is that the side depends on context but also eye movement, like with the “check that out” you can move/roll your eyes to the side you’re pointing to to signal that, while the “come over here” is a quick move to the side you’re pointing and moving back to the center
You can also count mouth movement too but that depends on the person, some faces are rock solid and don’t move unless they talk and some are doing all kinds of facial expressions
Up and down are true but left and right are made up
Not so much made as highly dependent on context. Ie, it depends what you’re nodding towards.
But up and down… yeah, they’ve been pretty universal wherever I’ve been. Kinda cool, really!
Yeah, my understanding is that the side depends on context but also eye movement, like with the “check that out” you can move/roll your eyes to the side you’re pointing to to signal that, while the “come over here” is a quick move to the side you’re pointing and moving back to the center
You can also count mouth movement too but that depends on the person, some faces are rock solid and don’t move unless they talk and some are doing all kinds of facial expressions
Up and down is “guy code” but side to side is just universal “look/go over there”
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Up and down are reversed for black dudes. I hope this can clear up communications between the races.
Whaaat my friend group is multiracial and we all do it the same
That’s probably because your cultures have been mixed considerably.