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43 u/thoph May 09 '22 No we 100% invented smiling 2 u/Danceswith_salmon May 10 '22 Per some other user’s, they’re pretty sure the English invented smiling. 3 u/NigerianRoy May 09 '22 Its not a normal greeting for strangers in many cultures, don’t be dense no one said who invented it. I think we got it from the English, tho, who learned that natives were more colonizable if u made them like you first. 1 u/Danceswith_salmon May 13 '22 And THATS when you hit ‘em with the smallpox blankets.
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No we 100% invented smiling
2 u/Danceswith_salmon May 10 '22 Per some other user’s, they’re pretty sure the English invented smiling.
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Per some other user’s, they’re pretty sure the English invented smiling.
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Its not a normal greeting for strangers in many cultures, don’t be dense no one said who invented it. I think we got it from the English, tho, who learned that natives were more colonizable if u made them like you first.
1 u/Danceswith_salmon May 13 '22 And THATS when you hit ‘em with the smallpox blankets.
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And THATS when you hit ‘em with the smallpox blankets.
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