gesture differences around the world...read this and you'll never leave home

As anyone who has lived in another country knows:

• signs are significant
• gestures differences are huge
• hand signals are signally handy

The catch is what does a gesture or hand motion mean/sign-ify in the nation you are in.

Using the wrong one could get you stared at, laughed at, married,  though to be a Gaither on crack, arrested.....or worse.

The internet/facebook is full of popularized memes/videos portraying the differences.

Here are two classic examples from better-trusted sources.

1)Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home

 By Mark McCrum,scroll to pages 12-22 HERE

2)The chapter on gestures from 

Do's and Taboos Around the World by Roger E. Axtell: