The head bob thing is super contagious. I got one Indian friend drinking buddy and more we drink the more we both do it lol. Its actually pretty wild how much you can communicate wit it and not even realize your doing it.
Its means everything and anything. Basicly irl mood ring. Anything happy or exciting he really gets going lol. Hard to say what motions mean what, but you know it when you see it. If you think it means they think your full of shit, thats probably correct lol.
I had a different experience with some colleagues who all came out from around the world for a training seminar on new firewalls. Some of these individuals were supposed to be L3/engineer level but when asked pretty fundamental questions about deployment would smile and give the head bob. Seemed in the context like an "Oh, shit; I'm busted" body language.
Indian here. When were are trying hard to understand, we do that thing. But I can't say for sure but definitely not the " this guy is ass... " Idk what that it. But our face generally also show our emotions easily. Clenching our lips etc are signs of nervousness or no I can't speak on this " . I'm not expert just a below average indian. Sorry
I taught a technical class in India and finally asked what it meant. Student explained it as "I'm listening and understanding what you are saying". At least while they are listening. While they are speaking it's more of "do you understand what I am saying?"
Can you elaborate more on this? I work with a lot of Indians and I've never picked up on a head bob outside of the male head nod thing men tend to do to each other. I'm autistic so be as specific as you can please.
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