Saturday, March 10, 2007

Japanese and the peace sign


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Originally uploaded by disneyscribbles.
Pull out a camera, and people here make the peace sign. Why, I dunno. No one I've asked knows. Most of the other foreigners do it too. Men. Women. Children. Hip old people.

So yeah. No clue why they do it, but if you check other pictures online, its uncommon to find a group picture without seeing at least one peace sign. I dare you to prove me wrong.

Any ideas concerning why its so popular?

3 comments:

conmigo said...

how do you say, "why do you always do that in pictures?" in japanese?

i wonder if they would find the question ridiculous and funny.

Unknown said...

probably something to do with rappers-i see them doing that on the rare occasions that I might glance at mtv.

kirstnter said...

I've asked around, and it depend what country you are in. in Kenya it means multi-parties (as in political parties). In japan it means victory.