Cultural Context
April 6, 2007 at 10:57 am by Will Crawford in Ramblings | No CommentsResearch indicates that cultural context is the key to reading facial expressions. Anybody who has tried to do business abroad has encountered this. What I didn’t realize is the extent to which this tendency extends to the Internet. Specifically, emoticons. The American “Happy” emoticon is (extra space to keep the blog from turning it into a pretty picture):
: )
Wherease in Japan:
^_^
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