Fred E. Jandt., Intercultural Communciation – An Introduction. 2nd Edition. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks. California. 1998 Page 106- 108.

On page 106 they write that Waving good-bye varies amoung cultures.

"In Italy, Columbia, and China, people may wave good-bye by moving the palm and fingers back and forth, a gesture that more likely means "come here" in the United States. But in Malaysia, beckoning someone by moving the forefingers back and forth would be taken as an insult."