A Cool Guide to American Hand Gestures That Can Get You in Trouble Abroad

The V-sign, isn't the clue to make it with the palm facing away from you? The V-for victory sign is definitely a thing in Great Britain. Churchill somewhat famously did the sign incorrectly the first few times he used it.
- IIRC in Straw Dogs, Dustin Hoffman plays an American who has come to rural England. He's greeted by two locals who give him the peace sign, then when he walks away they turn their hands around and it becomes the two-fingered salute.

So Greece has a problem. Well 👍
- Yeah if everything is offensive in one specific place it's suspicious

Brit here, the V sign has two different meanings dependant on which side of the fingers is shown. If the palm side is shown then it's the same peace sign, if it's the other side then it's offensive.
- I've been told it harkens back to Agincourt, where captured English archers had their drawing fingers cut off, so showing them would mean you're out to shoot some French.

Anyone from the Phillipines wanna verify that? Getting arrested for a hand gesture seems pretty wild.

Funny thing about these is when your country is involved you realize how full of shit the rest must be then.
As a French person born and raised, who lives right next to the Belgian border, never seen 3 used in the way they pretend it is.
It just means 'ok'
- Same in Belgium, never seen anyone use it for that

I am a turkish person and no the "ok" sign doesn't mean something like that
- From Belgium, never heard of what they're stating there either
  
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Tineye tracks this image back to 2017 and Pimsleur is old school in every way (including factoids) so the info behind it could easily be a last minute drunken assignment from 50 years ago.
We're a lot more globalized and everyone has been exposed to the America "character" through mass media since then. My advice to American tourists is to stop comparing everything to "back home" and to realise you are constantly breaking taboos but your hosts are too polite to tell you. And to remember this when the similarily offend you.

Gotta agree with the Filipinos on number 6 its like calling a dog to heel and its intentionally demeaning.
- Tbh I just assumed it was what Americans were constantly doing to Filipinos when they were an American colony.

Out of curiosity, in which parts of Australia is the V sign insulting? I'd only recognise it as an insult because I grew up watching British sitcoms, I've never seen it used that way in person.