A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

In conversation, natives generally look to one side or down, a habit Westerners regard as shy or sly. Literate man values the person who "looks one right in the eye,” but to a native there is something baneful in the direct glance; one who stares at another is considered as planning, or actually to be causing, some evil.
Marshall McLuhan Looks at Fashion” (1968), On the Nature of Media (2016), p 156
Year: 1968
Chapter: Tribal Societies
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