An interesting thought

I post this for two reasons: First, I really like the song (and it's good to see the guy performing it live). Second, at the end (when the guy comes out), he does the gesture which I'm going to discuss in this post. So yeah, watch it and then come back.



Okay, so you've watched it and all. So I was thinking today about the way television affects people in how they speak and interact with people. I started wondering how much people adopt the language style and body language of the characters they see on television. I probably would have been one of the people would have denied that kind of effect. I would have said something like my spoken and written languages was more affected by the things I've read rather than the things I've seen. Then I realized that I had picked up at least one little thing from a show, in particular a Japanese show. The show was Kamen Ridre Hibiki, from which this song is from. I picked up a phrase and gesture from the main character, Hibiki, in this series. When Hibiki first sees someone, he typically says "yo" and does a sort of pointing hand gesture (which you can see towards the end of this video when he comes out). Now I wasn't typically saying "yo" but I was often doing the hand gesture. I wasn't even consciously aware of it. It was just something I did. It came naturally. I think that says quite a bit about the effect and power of television. I wonder what other sort of things I (and others) have picked up from television shows.