Our justice system doesn't learn but DJs and goons do.

[Reggaedoc]

Saw a picture of Movado coming out of a police station, with a big grin on his face, after being charged with assault and causing bodily injury to a man and his son. I could not help but wonder what he was smiling about. Was he smiling because he was happy to be let out, or because he was being brought to book by a toothless system of justice, which more likely than not will vindicate him, or give him a slap on the wrist at worst? This is not an isolated picture. This type of pic has been seen over and over in our country.

Now let us look at other Jamaican celebs. Mr Coke left Jamaica smiling, and uncoffed during his curb walk here, but was cuffed, and wasn't smiling during his curb walk in New York. Buju wasn't exactly smiling when he was pushing that stroller in Florida outside the courthouse.

Do you think Movado would have been smiling if he were walking out of the 71st precinct in east Flatbush, Brooklyn, after being arrested for the same allegations?. I don't think so.

Is it that acused Jamaican 'celebs' develop dysfunction of the muscles or nerves which mediate smiling when in America, but those same muscles and nerves become untangled in Jamaica, or despite their musings, from time to time, they have a deep rooted fear of a real justice system?. Maybe they have have come to learn what a real justice system is capable of, but our justice system has not learned what a justice system is supposed to do. Just one man's opinion.

[Assasin]

you just a learn? Again the policy makers and the law enforcers are to be blamed. Can you image if Mr. Coke did get charge for the first, second and third crime he committed?

Comparing to the American system, didn't you see Casey Anthony(SP) the woman from Florida who get away a smile too? How that?

Remember when Toots and Bunny them went to jail them use to sing bout hard times and the fact that them nuh guilty?

Now a days badman a sing say him buss up bwoy and just get away. What that tell you bout the system?

[Reggaedoc]

Yu right fe true me bredren.

[Muadib]

ahright yuh stretching it now... mi si nuff people walk pon bail im merica smiling.. especially when dem have lawyah like Johnny Cochran beside dem..

Di man nuh muss smile.. yuh evah si di inside of a Jamaican jail cell ?

[Exile]

Ah you have touched on may subjects here...I'll deal with the smile. Not all smiles are smiles of happiness..sm are grimaces...some to fool the enemy....some to disarm others...so many different kinds of smiles...would have helped if you posted a pic.

[Islandman]

Let the Movado smile analysis begin!

[Exile]

"no show I no teeth, plastic smile cyan work" - yu know dem chune deh???
I will do a more scientific response shortly.

[Exile]

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2009
Smile or Grimace?
In the 1980s the Newport cigarette company ran a series of magazine ads showing women and men interacting. The tag line was “Alive with pleasure! After all, if smoking isn’t a pleasure, why bother?”

One ad showed a man and a woman embracing while squeezing giant, long balloons between them.

The ad campaign continued with a woman squirting her boyfriend with a drinking fountain, spraying him with a boda bag, and a holding an icycle up to his mouth.

The Freudian overtones are pretty obvious now that two decades have given us a little more objectivity.

But what is even more interesting are the facial expressions. Are those really smiles of pleasure, or something else?


Primate social behavior expert Jane Goodall has said, “The chimpanzee's smile so often seen on TV is actually a grin of fear.” Monkeys and apes pull their lips back from their teeth in social situations to show extreme discomfort.

Sometimes the primate smile has an aggressive side. Diane Fossey, who studied gorillas, said, "The primate grimace known as the threat face tells an aggressor to back off."


Humans have two kinds of smiles. One is the genuine smile of pleasure. The other is the nervous grin. It’s the uncomfortable smile that we see at cocktail parties or in conference rooms when people are unsure of their social position.

Anthropologists call it the “deferential grimace.” It’s often accompanied by a squinting of the eyes.

Above is a painting by contemporary Chinese artist Yue Minjun. Time Magazine describes the expression in Mr. Minjun’s work in this way: “a laugh that isn't entirely funny; an exuberance shadowed by deep unease.”

The Newport ad campaign affects us on two simultaneous and conflicting emotional tracks. The conscious track tells us that these are happy people having fun together. The unconscious track, which the conscious mind easily dismisses, awakens uncomfortable feelings of role reversal, alienation, or jealousy.

The conscious tag line is “Newport: alive with pleasure!” But the unconscious line should read: “Newport: fraught with social anxiety!”

But why does it sell cigarettes?
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More
A study suggesting that Americans and Brits use slightly different muscles when expressing the deferential grimace, link.
Posted by James Gurney at Wednesday, February 11,
source:
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/20...r-grimace.html

[Exile]

In physiology, a smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth. The smile can be also around the eyes. Among humans, it's customarily an expression of pleasure, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it can be known as a grimace. There is much evidence that smiling is a normal reaction to certain stimuli and occurs regardless of culture. Happiness is most often the cause of a smile. Among animals, the exposure of teeth, which may bear a resemblance to a smile, is often used as a threat or warning display - known as a snarl - or a sign of submission. In chimpanzees, it can be a sign of fear.

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1 Types of smiles
2 Historical background
3 Examples
4 References
5 See also
6 Images
7 External links

Types of smiles
Researchers have identified two main varieties of smiles:

The "Duchenne smile", after the researcher Guillaume Duchenne, is the most studied, and involves the movement of both the zygomaticus major muscle near the mouth and the orbicularis oculi muscle near the eyes. An example of the smile is shown in the girl's smile in the middle of the page. It is believed that the Duchenne smile is only produced as an involuntary response to genuine emotion, and is therefore what one could call the "genuine" smile. Due to the involvement of the muscle near the eyes, it is sometimes said that one can tell whether or not a smile is "real" by whether or not it "reaches the eyes".
The "Pan American smile", on the other hand, is the voluntary smile involving only the zygomaticus major muscle to show politeness; for example, by a flight attendant on the former airline of the same name. Considered "insincere", this type of smile has also been called the "Professional Smile" by David Foster Wallace in his comedic short story "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".

Historical background
Many biologists think the smile started as a sign of fear. Primalogist Signe Preuschoft traces the smile back over 30 million years of evolution to the "fear grin." Monkeys and apes used barely clenched teeth to portray to predators that they were harmless. Biologists believe the smile has evolved differently among species and especially among humans. Biology is not the only academic discipline that interprets the smile. Those who study kinesics view the smile as an affect display. It can communicate feelings such as: love, happiness, pride, contempt, and embarrassment.


Examples
Researchers have come to the conclusion that smiles are innate. For example, blind people smile without learning it through observation. However, the use of smiles varies from culture to culture. For example, Middle Easterners think Americans are insincere because they smile so often. Another example is that the Japanese smile less because of societal pressures to hide emotions.


References
Miller, Professor George A., et. al. Overview for "smile." Retrieved 12 December 2003 from this page.
Conniff, R. (2007). What's behind a smile? Smithsonian Magazine, 38,46-53.
Ottenheimer, H.J. (2006). The anthropology of language: An introduction to linguistic anthropology. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworh.
Scanner shows unborn babies smile


Source:http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Smile

[Exile]

As usual you fall prey to the obvious and simplistic...ah well...

[Muadib]

Ah wheh di !?...

speaking of smoking.. look like seh yuh smoke off half a di 300 acre field dem find innah Baja....

Is ongly weed mi know send man inna dis yah level ah zone...profundity spoil !

Every ansah is a thesis.. all when man ask yuh name...

"Name, what is in a name ? Can one be identified merely by a combination of letters ?......"

lol ! woiii ! Tek time baba !

[Muadib]

Google dis:

Ockham's Razor..

[Exile]

Me an' mi brethren Islandman a reason..a who sen come call yu???? Is what you smoking? Latte? Whoeeeee....

[Muadib]

me and reggaedoc was a reason above.. dat nevah stop yuh.. check yuhself before yuh wreck yuhself...

[Exile]

Reason?? You????? Hilarious!!!!