Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Hands Across the Border Message-ID: <6855@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 19:25:29 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.6855 Posted: Thu Feb 9 19:25:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 05:18:50 EST References: <2234@ihldt.UUCP>, <6822@watmath.UUCP>, <274@pyuxss.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 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