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From: plaice@uvicctr.UUCP (plaice)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.psychology,comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Learned Behavior vs. Hard-Wired Behavior
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Date: 1 Dec 88 17:38:16 GMT
References: <1824@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <208@logicon.arpa>
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In article <208@logicon.arpa> Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes:
>In article <1824@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>>A good guide to what is innate
>>in humans is to look for behavior that exists in all cultures,
>
>A behavior that I once thought existed in all human cultures was
>nodding ones head up and down to mean "yes" and shaking from side to
>side to mean "no."  According to my girlfriend, who works for a
>company that does international trading, there is at least one place
>where this is not true.  I don't remember exactly where it is (Asian
>continent, I think) but they nod for "no" and shake for "yes."  Their
>word for "yes" even sounds like "nih", which would be taken for a "no"
>in many languages.

The country in question is Greece, which is hardly in Asia!
Travelling through Greece can be quite amusing!


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