#AI #GenerativeAI #Smile #FacialExpression #USA #Imperialism: "As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple. In 2006, as part of her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Phenomenon of the Smile in Russian, British and American Cultures,” Maria Arapova, a professor of Russian language and cross-cultural studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, asked 130 university students from the U.S., Europe, and Russia to imagine they had just made eye contact with a stranger in a public place — at the bus stop, near an elevator, on the subway, etc.
Which, she asked the participants, would you do next?
A) smile and then look away
B) look away
C) gaze at his eyes, then look away
90% of Americans and Europeans chose the option with a smile in it. Only 15% of Russians did.
How we smile, when we smile, why we smile, and what it means is deeply culturally contextual."
https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf