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		Gravityloss on Sept 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraitur... The question could be asked in another way: why do Americans smile so much in photographs, compared to many other cultures? Right now. This research seems quite insular.

chc on Sept 30, 2013 [–]

I've met a lot of people from a lot of different cultures, and all of them tend to smile in photographs. Can you list a few where smiling in photos is odd?

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