This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
gibberingtroper: Its all well and good to highlight differences in western and eastern attitudes towards finger pointing, but this article makes finger-pointing seem like a Japan centric trope (unless I'm missing a finger-pointing Super-Trope, in which case, the article is also missing it.) Finger pointing has meaning in pretty much every culture on the planet.
I guess I should be at least thankful that this isn't yet another english language article named "The (insert Japanese word/Anime character name)"