Non-Verbal Communication Determined by Race

[Rev.Cambeul]

Yes, they say "culture," but we who live in these so-called "multi-cultural" countries know otherwise. How many times have you had to deal with a non-White born into the same "culture" as you, that has mistaken your facial expression for the complete opposite of your actual thoughts and intentions? Why is it that when we Whites attempt to determine the meaning of the facial expressions of non-Whites, all we see are parodies of fear, awe and hatred (depending on the ratio of White to non-White)? The answer is simpler than could be imagined: hardwired instinct for self preservation combined with an inherent cross-racial inability to understand one another at the most basic level reinforces only serves to reinforce the fact that our creed of RACIAL SEPARATISM is a creed dictated to us by nature.

@Cailen.


Facial expressions explored in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Health reporter Jordanna Schriever | From: The Advertiser | April 17, 2012

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/facial-expressions-explored-in-proceedings-of-the-national-academy-of-science/story-e6frea6u-1226329538595

Isabella and Lila are both happy as they play at Regency Road Child Care Centre. Can't you tell from their faces? Picture: Mark Brake
I see happiness and wonderment on one side and apprehension on the other ~ Cailen.

IF you're feeling happy, don't expect everyone to understand your smile.

A new study rejects the widely held belief that the facial expressions for six basic emotional states - happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, and sorrow - are biologically hardwired and universal.


Instead, the authors say, facial expressions have evolved and diversified to suit cultural groups.

The universality hypothesis - first proposed by Charles Darwin - claims all humans communicate those six expressions using the same facial movements.

But the authors instead found that across cultures, emotions are expressed using culture-specific facial signals.

To test the hypothesis, observers viewed 4800 random facial animations displayed by people from the same cultures and different cultures, and categorised each animation.

In the study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the authors found that while Westerners represent the emotions with a set of facial movements, Easterners do not.

The differences are also more pronounced, with Easterners representing emotional intensity using distinctive eye activity.

"Although some basic facial expressions such as fear and disgust originally served as an adaptive function when humans `existed in a much lower and animal-like condition', facial expression signals have since evolved and diversified to serve the primary role of emotion communication during social interaction," the authors wrote.

"As a result, these once biologically hardwired and universal signals have been molded by the diverse social ideologies and practices of the cultural groups who use them for social communication."