• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    3 days ago

    In modern America, smiling is normalised in a way that’s an outlier among human cultures. If someone in Russia smiled as much as the typical American, they’d be regarded as a simpleton, too feeble-minded to have an understanding of the world.

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      3 days ago

      You look stupid or like a con artist.

      I say this as an American.

      If you are walking around smiling for no reason you look like an idiot.

      If you walk up to me smiling and i don’t know you i prepare for a scam attempt.

      Not sure how the rest of America hasn’t felt this way about it. Who smiles like an idiot at strangers? Mentally ill people. Car salesmen. Politicians… you know, shit people.