BODY LANGUAGE
EYES: Eyes are the windows to the soul...you can tell a lot about a person's thoughts or feelings on a subject by their eyes. For this very reason eyes play a large role in our communication. Our body language is often times eye language. Women in rural Karnatka lower their eyes when talking to men. People of lower castes lower their eyes when talking to people of higher castes.
HANDS: In Karnatka people don't kiss one another on the cheek as people do in Europe and in the US (among some people groups...like mine;) Instead people will pinch one's cheek and then the person will bring their fingers together so they resemble a flower bud and then they kiss the tips of their fingers.
FEET: Out of respect one will touch the feet of an elder or someone who deserves great respect.
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