Why isn’t there a universal sign language?

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Why isn’t there a universal sign language? One that everyone around the world could learn so that they would be understood no matter where they lived, or travelled to? Who decided it was a better idea to have more than one?

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The signs are very culture dependent. For instance the sign for eating in most of the western world is putting your fingers together and move them towards your mouth. But in some Asian countries the sign for eating is stretching your index and middle finger together like chopsticks. Same for thesign for bullshit, which is literally making one hand like a little cow with horns while other hand resembles the cow pooping. In any other language that doesn’t mean anything other than a cow pooping.

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