why not just end the discussion. In the history of this forum, such topics always go out of hand. So yeah.. leave it.

Surprising as it may be, I´m not going to comment on hijab but on emoticons. I was reading through posts and saw Ruh using a lot of ^^. Till now I believed it was supposed to indicate sarcasm so I checked Wiki and I learnt that ^^ or ^_^ in Eastern Asia meant the same as here. Wow, even emoticons are culture-dependent

 I mean seriously now Daydreamer...just look at it. ------------>  ^__________^ that´s me smiling like an idiot. .

Sarcasm? Oh no, why? T_T  <----- These are tears.

If you ever looked at Japanese websites (when watching online series or films you are often redirected to Chines or Japanese sites), you´d definitely notice the difference between smilies. The jap/chinese ones are much more shaped with rectangular and squar lines. Maybe it has something to do with the stilistic forms of western an asian alphabets.

T_T    ...that could also be a teenager with gothic make-up...