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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 19:25:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 19:25:29 1984
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I guess I did not express myself clearly enough.  I meant North American
when I said American.  But since most North Americans I know are Canadian,
I am really basing my observation on them rather than US-americans.  I didn't
notice, however, a significant difference between the US-american women I know
and the Canadian women, but I did notice a very significant one between the
north american women I know and the Europeans, South Americans and Africans I
know, but now that I think more about it, it seems that the division is more in
terms of North and South than any other way, as most non-N-Americans I know tend
to be from medditeranean or latin origins.

For some reason, it seems that people from warmer countries touch each other
more than those from colder countries.  However, it seems that in non-american
cold countries where people of the same sex do not touch each other, this 
happens more because it is in the customs rather than because of explicit fear
of homosexuality as seems to be often the case here (in canada).

I am making all these remarks based on what I have noticed of the behaviour of
the people around me, or what I have noticed going to other countries such as
France or Spain, or from what some of my friends from different countries have
told me about their countries.  I have not done any "scientific" study of 
those phenomena.

			Sophie Quigley
			watmath!saquigley