Comments by "Eyen Nordic" (@eyennordic348) on "NativLang" channel.

  1. In one case at least, smiling individuals were considered agressive by cannibal tribe, because they had no previous contacts with western christian cultures, they never smiled and showing teeth in their own tribe were a signal of aggression or readiness to attack.
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  2.  Master Yoda  no. Smiling is not genetic. They really dont smile when they are happy, and they misunderstood our reasearchers when they tried to apply european norm on them. They asked them, why they always loojed angry on their language, because russian reasearchers smiled scared them a bit. They really had an another way of facial expressions, gestures and body language. It actually more rscist to assume that every culture should have the same patterns your culture prefer. Yes, due to communication, most contacted tribes knows smiles today, but there are still ones who does not. That tribe also was very suprised, when they heard a question, about gods of their cultures, which of them good and which of them evil. They answered :"All gods are evil, how can a good god exist?"
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  3.  Master Yoda  Smiling and facial expressions are largely cultural thing. Because children, raised by animals and neglected ones does not develope any facial expressions until they are exposed to them and taught them by people they later gat attached to. Until then, they are "faceless" and have animal body language and ways of exoressing affections.
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  4.  @thriceandonce  sounds like an optimum strategy :)
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