Creative and Funny Fingers

For example, in Japanese Sign Language, when the palm is facing out, it is recognized as the letter Se. Many other gestures are used in various parts of the world to express the same sentiment. In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zeland, the V sign (when given with back of the hand towards the recipient) serves a similar purpose. In countries where Spanish, Portuguese, or French are spoken, and especially on the Iberian peninsula and in Latin America, a gesture called the Bras d’honneur involving raising a fist and slapping the biceps on the same arm as the fist used, sometimes called the Iberian slap or Iberian finger, is equivalent to the finger. Italy, Poland, and countries under the influence of Russian culture (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine) also see the Bras d’honneur as equivalent to The Finger. In some African and Caribbean countries, a similarly obscene gesture is extending all five digits with the palm facing forward, meaning “you have five fathers” (thus calling someone a bastard). In old Persian territory mainly Iran and Iraq the people use the Thumbs up instead middle finger as an obscene hand gesture. according to Roger E. Axtell’s book Gestures: The Do’s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World. In some Arab countries, especially Egypt, the middle finger is lowered towards the palm and pointed towards someone, while all other fingers are kept straight. It could be considered the opposite movement of the tradition middle finger gesture, but it serves the same purpose and meaning…