Answers To: Keep Your Hands To Yourself By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved E. We should all have a nickel for how many times a US president or vice-president has inadvertently insulted foreign dignitaries by cheerily waving from Air Force One, and then giving a hearty A-OK or thumbs-up sign. True. Many Asians find it difficult to actually say the word no, and instead more comfortably indicate their displeasure or disagreement with a gesture. B. True. True. In Brazil, many executives will stand approximately six inches away from each other when speaking. D. If you are thoroughly prepared and sit ramrod straight in your chair without moving until he dismisses you, you may leave with your job intact. True. This type of "mini-applause" was reportedly started in one of the courts of a Japanese emperor. True. A proper Brit would never point at anything with a digit. C. The professor's failure to respect Muslim decorum resulted in a student protest and newspaper headlines denouncing British arrogance. C. The "shaka," while not easy for "mainlanders" to do at first, is so popular that it became a trademark of a former Hawaii governor.