Eskimo kissing of this convention from the film. Scenes involving Eskimo kissing have been featured in Western media, including episodes of United States TV shows, such as "The Simpsons" and "South Park." In a sketch on "Chappelle's Show," Eskimo kissing was portrayed as a stereotypically white gesture. In addition to that, the British rock band "The Kooks" has a song named "Eskimo Kiss" on their album "Junk of the Heart". Eskimo kissing An Eskimo kiss, also called nose kiss or nose rub, is the act of pressing the tip of one's nose against another's nose usually interpreted as a friendly greeting gesture
Eskimo words for snow are referred to as Eskimo, and a number of different languages are termed Eskimo–Aleut languages. These languages may have more or fewer words for "snow", or perhaps more importantly, more or fewer words that are "commonly applied" to snow, depending on which language is considered. Three distinct word roots with the meaning "snow" are reconstructed for the Proto-Eskimo language *"qaniɣ" 'falling snow', *"aniɣu" 'fallen snow', and *"apun" 'snow on the ground'. These three stems are found in all Inuit languages and dialects—except for West Greenlandic, which lacks *"aniɣu". The Alaskan and Siberian Yupik people (among others) however, are not Inuit