JAPAN VS. WEST

Este post viene de Boing Boing. Se acuerdan uno de los primeros posts de Dialogos Bizarros de cómo los japoneses perciben la imagen gráfica? Bueno, aqui va uno de cómo perciben las caras y las expresiones. Después habla de la formación y el uso de los emoticons. Aqui va el artículo completo. Lo de abajo solo es la nota de Boing Boing para abrir boca.

Japanese and Americans read faces differently
Danah sez, "A new study is out showing cultural differences in reading cues. Japanese folks focus on people's eyes to get nuanced expression information while Americans tend to focus on the mouth. The most interesting part of all of this is that it plays out in the emoticons that folks use:"

So when Yuki entered graduate school and began communicating with American scholars over e-mail, he was often confused by their use of emoticons such as smiley faces :) and sad faces, or :(.

'It took some time before I finally understood that they were faces,' he wrote in an e-mail. In Japan, emoticons tend to emphasize the eyes, such as the happy face (^_^) and the sad face (;_;). 'After seeing the difference between American and Japanese emoticons, it dawned on me that the faces looked exactly like typical American and Japanese smiles,' he said.