These INNOCENT gestures can even get you KILLED in some parts of the world!

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Travelling to different countries other than yours turns out to be quite interesting as you are bestowed with different activities and cultures which you have never seen hence, soothing your curiosity. But, it may turn out otherwise if you haven’t learned much about them and hurt them in a way you consider are not worth hurting.

Yes indeed, there are things, one of them being hand gestures, which you may take appreciating positively, but are equivalent to bigger abuses and insults in many different countries. Performing such gestures to the wrong person in the wrong place, might get you involved in a fight or even worse!

So tread carefully while flashing the listed gestures in the concerned countries, it can quite literally, save your life!

1. Thumbs up (Middle East and parts of West Africa)

Travelling to the land of leisure, Dubai? Of course you’re going to love it there. But be careful not to thumbs up any native as a gesture of appraisal, which we usually take it as. This innocent gesture in these parts of the world has an atrocious meaning; “I’m going to stick my thumb up your *ss”. Surprising isn’t it?

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2. The Stop Sign (Greece)

What do you do if you want to stop someone who has been rambling on about his/her boring stuff that don’t interest you a bit? Many of you might, too lazy to speak, just show your open palm which means (for us) to stop. But things are different when you’re in Greece where the same gesture is known the ‘Mountza’ with a meaning; “I want your face covered in feces”. Think before stopping a Greek though.

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3. The Fingers Crossed (Vietnam)

We often tend to cross our fingers when about to see our results or any other thing which we hope to torn out as good. Sometimes we even do this while lying. But in Vietnam people certainly don’t cross their fingers in the similar situations as it means “a female genital part” and showing this to someone would mean for them that you are calling them the horrible ‘C’ word.

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4. Finishing your meal (China, Thailand and Philippines)

The best way to please the one who cooked food for you is to eat every last bite served on your plate. However, do that in any of the mentioned countries and you’ll be doing the exact opposite of what you intend to as this polite gesture means “that was pathetic amount of food!” leaving a small bite on your platter would mean that you’re too full to have more which is considered polite.

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5. The Peace Sign (Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand)

An immensely popular sign which signifies victory and even pore precisely Peace has found its way to many youngsters’ and even adults’ hands whenever they strike for a photo. But while you are in any of the countries mentioned be very careful using it because if you show this sign from the back of your hands to any of the people there, neither they nor you’re gonna like what happens next because this sign is equivalent to the infamous ‘middle finger’ sign used in anger.

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