In the same year, General Taksin, who later became King rallied the country’s forces together. When Burmese forces invaded Siam (Thailand) in 1767, the Burmese army captured the Siam capital of Ayutthaya. Siam – Does the Salute Date Back to Then? You’ve guessed it, Mr Bush signalled with his hand the wrong way round. In 1992, George Bush Snr, on tour in Australia, gave a prearranged V peace sign to protesting farmers. The V sign shown with an open palm and used throughout the world is a sign of peace or victory. Incorrect use can lead to an embarrassing situation. Performing the two-fingered V sign or salute can be interpreted differently by which part of the hand is facing the recipient. This gestured insult is known as the moutza. Joe Public slapped the ash on the convict’s face with an open palmed splayed hand. The convict sat facing the animals rear with their hands tied behind their back and face smothered in cinder. In medieval Greek times, officialdom paraded criminals through the streets on a donkey. Displaying your open outstretched hand towards someone in Greece with the palm facing towards them, and all five digits splayed out, is considered a huge insult. Hand signs mean different things depending on where you travel in the world. Still, my research shows their origin and intention were very much one and the same, but not so nowadays. The Thai rendition is reversed, with the open palm showing.
In the United Kingdom, we show the back of our hand when performing a much more aggressive version of the two-finger salute. The Thai Two-Fingered Salute – Different Meanings Elsewhere Then one day, when reading web blogs, I came across a comment that seemed to offer a logical explanation to the mystery. For many months, I had a slight obsession with trying to solve what exactly the Thai two-finger salute meant. If you have spent any time in Thailand, then the pose in the picture above will be one you have seen plenty of times before.
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