Liberian snap handshake
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Liberian snap handshake
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In Liberia, the snap handshake or finger snap is a gesture of greeting, in which two people shake hands in the conventional Western way, but end the handshake with a mutual press of the fingers that creates a "snap" sound. Apocryphally, the custom is attributed to the Americo-Liberian population of freed slaves, who created the gesture to contrast with slave owners' practice of breaking slaves' fingers. During the 2014–15 Ebola epidemic, handshaking in Liberia was curtailed, leading a BBC commen
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Liberian greeting gesture
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2023-09-22T05:47:54Z
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