DISGRASIAN™

What a (Racial) Drag: Buddhist Prayer Hands

Here are DISGRASIAN’s rules regarding making Buddhist prayer hands in public. They’re very simple and, in our view, quite generous.

1) If you’re from a culture that actually uses them in greeting, pray away.

Thai tennis sensation Paradorn Srichaphan

2) If you are a martial artist–even the world’s most revoltacious–pray like you’re under siege.

From IMDB: “Steven Seagal is a striking and somewhat boyishly handsome looking (often with ponytail) and usually impeccably dressed action star”–SAYS WHO?!?

3) If your nickname is His Holiness, well, nuff said.

4) If you’re His Holiness’s biggest brown-noser, uh, we mean, follower, we begrudgingly accept your Buddhist prayer hands like we would a gerbil up the ass.

Gerbils and Buddhism Go Together Like Dalai Lama Lama Ka Dinga Da Dinga Dong

5) But if you’re a French actress walking the red carpet in Tokyo, bustin’ with the prayer hands cuz you’re in Asia and you’re trying to convey how spirituel you are…

Marion Cotillard at the Tokyo premiere of La Vie en Rose

…we’ll feel compelled to tell you that a) the Japanese don’t bow that way, and b) we’re praying for you and a speedy recovery from this affliction.

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