Hello, this is just know the perception about this notice.

So what do you think about the peolpe who is not happy with the visit of Bush in their countries.? (Brazil,Uruguay,Colombia,Nicaragua)
What do you feel when you see the U.S.A. flag burning???
What do you think about Bush dancing with the brazilian people?.

"So what do you think about the peolpe who is not happy with the visit of Bush in their countries.? (Brazil,Uruguay,Colombia,Nicaragua) "

I hope they know that most Americans think he is a stupid asshole too.



What do you feel when you see the U.S.A. flag burning???


It does not cause any great emotional reaction, positive or negative.
People are protesting and I support their right to do so.


What do you think about Bush dancing with the brazilian people?.

I hope he doesn't step on their toes. (I haven't read about this dancing you are talking about)

Thanks for your comments, about the flag burning, that`s meke me feel a litle sad, well if you turn on the T.V, a lot of things make me sad too. Anyway, i lived in Kentucky too, for a while,.....good memories!!!!

Bush travelling to foreign lands I always view positively. While I don't think it has any chance of opening his mind, the way most people's minds are opened by travel, it's better than him sitting isolated in his little oval room in the executive mansion or on his "ranch" in BFN Texas.

Burning flags do nothing for me. As long as it's not an actual historical relic, I couldn't give a happy monkey fuck what someone does to a flag that was most likely mass-produced in China anyway.

Well, i found it good, but the corn guys up there in the USA didnt seem to like it...i mean...they can really think that corn can compete against sugar cane? Thats a totally stupid lobby, and who really pays the price are the americans, having to buy a much more expensive home-made ethanol. By the way, our ethanol is totally are really eco-friendly, since our ethanol usines can make energy out of the sugar cane rests, while the corn usines need oil and shit like that to work.

Hugging It Out
How is Bush’s south-of-the-border swing going, really? A body-language expert searched photos of his visits with Latin American leaders for clues about the man and his mission.

Web exclusive
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
Newsweek
Updated: 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

March 13, 2007 - What can a staged grip-and-grin picture tell you about international relations? A lot, says Peter Andersen, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Body Language" (Alpha) and professor of communications at San Diego State University. "The body language of world leaders is reflective of their attitudes either toward the individual or toward the country or the culture," he explains. The president suffers poor approval ratings in the region, and anti-Bush demonstrations have been common during the trip. So it’s not surprising that some of the photo ops from the five-nation Latin American tour reflect tension, Andersen says. "Bush's body language in many of the images from this trip is that of someone who's either very reluctant or somewhat inept, and that confirms the image that a lot of people in those countries and around the world have already developed of him." NEWSWEEK's Susanna Schrobsdorff asked Andersen to review photos from the trip to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. Excerpts:

NEWSWEEK: Why are images so key to how we regard world leaders?

Peter Andersen: Pictures transcend culture and literacy levels. You don't have to read all of a 2,000-word newsmagazine cover story to get something from it. That image on the cover, it has irrefutable and intrinsic meaning. You can have an opposing article, but there's no way to refute a photo. It is what it is and it resonates deeply within us for that reason. Images even affect different parts of the brain than language does. The structures that process face are in a part of the brain that's very intuition and quick judgment. It has a logic of its own and it's extraordinarily powerful.

The photos of George Bush in Latin America were mostly formal, scripted events with regional leaders. What can we glean from those kinds of staged moments?

First of all, in those situations you're dealing with intercultural interactions. Body language is not identical across cultures, but it's still revealing. In Japan, you can see what's a reluctant bow, or a perfunctory bow. Part of it is how deep is the bow, how long it's held. Looking at these kinds of images, you can find out a lot from the attitudes, facial expressions, posture and the way the leaders touch each other. These photos are a rich source of all three kinds of information.

Can the average person analyze body language accurately, or do you have to be an expert?

You can't read a person like a book, but most people are really good at a process called "thin-slicing." We make judgments about race, gender and age with that first look. Then there's body language—people are really intuitive at figuring out whether that there are good vibes there or not. It doesn't take five hours for us to do that, it can take 30 seconds. And, our research shows that those first impressions are pretty accurate. You can tell whether a person is comfortable, whether they are anxious or warm. Those judgments are made very rapidly.

So we can tell when politicians are being sincere and when they're lying?

With deception, it's more complicated and hard to figure out. But we can tell whether a person is comfortable in their own skin and that has an effect on how we see them. [Sen.] Barack Obama almost always seems comfortable, while [Sen.] Hillary Clinton and [former vice president] Al Gore almost always look a little stilted, even to those who like them. They don't convey comfort in their own skin.

When you looked at a photo of President Bush with Guatemalan President Oscar Berger taken this week, with their hands raised in greeting palms out, you said that Bush looked very uncomfortable. Why was that picture particularly significant?

What they were doing with their palms is a universal cross-cultural sign of friendship. It's so universal that the United States etched that image on a Pioneer space craft because they thought aliens might encounter it. It shows you have no weapons and you're revealing your palm—a very vulnerable part of the body. It's not an area you'd expose to an adversary. You'd have a clenched fist in that case. Almost everywhere in the world, that greeting is a sign of peace. That is exactly the pose Bush and Berger are in, but the way Bush is making the gesture, it looks inept or reluctant. It may add to the image of him as somewhat dazed and confused in the world.

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