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In the Mandinka laguage, this gesture is called 'bisaro,' while other West African languages would have other words for it. It is exhibited throughout much of West Africa and is likely millennia old. Its meaning is contempt or at least distaste. Its ethnic specificity is on par with so many of the world's gestures, such as caucasians closing and squinting a single eye, the 'wink,' as a signal of aimiable accord, or Asian bowing behavior as an arrival/departure greeting. We use gestures for the same reasons that we use words, to communicate.

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