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ance – shaving chin with index finger, especially when a female refuse the purchaser she doesn’t like. In a French café, one would meet a girl smiling and shaving her chin, charming and lovely. The purchaser would be sensible and quit when he sees the gesture. A very interesting thing can be found in Mexico. People are sure to employ index finger to measure the height. In Mexico, they use hand to measure the height of animals. The Dutch would like to shave along the bridge of the nose times to indicate that someone is stingy or mean. And they tap their forehead or act as driving the flies before to show that one is crazy. When they mean that there is a phone for you, they would circle above the ear with index finger. The action is quite similar to the gesture used by American – circling around the temples – to indicate someone is crazy. The index finger can also have other meanings. In China, people always stretch out the index finger and draw circle around one’s own face, as if they are scratching, but the finger is straight. Such a gesture means “disgraced”. While in America, to indicate the same meaning, people would like to stretch out both index fingers, with palm downwards, and rub one finger’s back with another finger. There is an idiom in English: keep one’s fingers crossed, which means to wish somebody good luck. The fingers are index and middle ones. The index finger is very important in communication. To use it correctly, people can get more convenience. F. Attention of the Use of Middle Finger “The Finger” (flipping the bird – to make a rude sign at someone by raising your middle finger and keeping your other fingers down) is mostly used as a sign of obscenity. A civilized person should never use it. In the gestures, it is a taboo to point at person or thing with the middle finger. In English-speaking countries, middle finger stands for a male’s reproductive organ; extending middle finger is a lascivious action. For 2000 years the Rome people continuously call the middle finger “the frivolous finger”. In fact, stretching out the middle finger alone means no good in most countries. Generally it is used to express the meaning of “disagreement”, or “curse”. In US, Australia, Tunisia, this kind of hand signal means: “Does that kind of relations”, an expression of insult. It indicates dirty behavior in France, and aggressive in Saudi Arabia. Singaporean people take it as an insult. In the Philippines, it means curse, the anger, the hatred and despite. In China, it means the opposite party is “talking nonsense” or a kind of insult of the opposite. However, in Burma and Nigeria, stretching out the middle finger means “one”, and “middle” in Tunisia. Though the middle finger is rude when using alone, it can work with other fingers to form a good or neutral meaning. In Argentina, people touch the thumb and middle finger lightly and tap them with index finger, which means “be quick” or “a lot of”. In America, people often cross the middle and index fingers to hope for good luck or indicate that what the person has said is just opposite to the fact. Since such kinds of gestures are not widely used, one is expected to pay enough attention to them. G. Use of Little Finger The little finger also plays a great role in communication. Stretching out little finger takes different meanings in different areas. In China, this gesture means “slightly”, “not worthy of mentioning”, “worst”, “end”, “the reciprocal first”, and extends