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National body language

Unsigned · 2025-01-13 10:52
While boarding a plane recently I saw a guy standing in the line. The second I saw him, I thought "American!". He wasn't dressed like a tourist or doing anything strange, but somehow I immediately felt this even though I didn't even see his face. This was confirmed when he began speaking with the ticket agent. The flight was from Paris to Munich so I don't think I was biased by the destinations. Now I'm wondering about my own "physical accent". Have you ever noticed a foreigner in your country just from the way they look?
Bobby Newmark · 2025-01-13 12:08
yes, although I think clothing styles, not even dressing as a vacationer/tourist but just the styles available in one place or another, or popular in one place or another are often a bit telling of nationality. I am sure, someone committed to assimilation would adopt the national dress of his host country but have known for instance Germans in USA who even after many decades never did and always stuck out like, a slightly sore thumb because of it. Also there is of course the old joke about the CIA sending a spy to the soviets. They prepare him very thoroughly, his russian: impeccable, his accent even, perfect. Very well trained in his supposed background, knows all the stuff he should learn in some russian school et cetera et cetera, in other words perfect in every respect as far as blending in, as perfect a spy as the CIA could ever train. He goes over and is arrested for espionage almost immediately, and he asks the arresting officer why? How did they know ? he was a nigger
Linda Lee · 2025-01-14 07:53
>>87063 military guys are easy to spot, even when they are old and out of business. by the way they are walking and turning, moving in their surroundings or crouching to reach something in the store. same or similar goes for police. lawyers and priests have the same vibe. a guy at the airport played a game guessing peoples origins, he guessed mine wrong. its not lack of his excercise or how i was dressed, but how to align in your immediate field. at that time i was travelling frequently and confidently and i believe having a good passport with all the visa privilege makes a comfortable flyer and then it was a ripple effect.
Hououin Kyouma · 2025-01-20 08:59
>>87063 id like to board some plane (i dont care for which) and have some overview. To overlook its wings and if its the suitable seat, see its turbines. Sometimes one can only see only the wing and the earth underneath without the working engine, which is fine too. But i know one has to earn summertime. If anyone wants to buy a ticket, one wants to make sure not to blackout and turn like that lady in a viral (forgot what she said, but she was turning all the passengers against the cabin crew). i for one dont have a problem with the narrow flying halls, it was always the checkins, the hour long queques that had beat up the spirit.
Hagbard Celine · 2025-02-08 00:39
Langley users if you have to ask, it's too late. My advice is get a bucket of black paint. There will be so many black stars that it would be better to paint the whole wall black. All your sigredux belong to us. Take solace in the fact that this is justice for the greatest terror attacks ever committed in human history, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden. Repent and may the lord forgive you all.