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Drew Gardner wrote:
The teacher said that European-descent Americans like me are reared to keep about three feet of distance, while Latin Americans are raised to be comfortable much closer.
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Hi,
The academic study of this is called proxemics and the guy who started it is Edward T. Hall. A lot of good stuff if you look for it. The application of proxemics to martial arts/combat is covered in Vladimir Vasiliev's DVD "Hand to Hand" and in Kevin Secours' DVD "Warhead: Russian Systema Comabt Psychology".
Charles