Wall Street是什么意思啊啊？
同学你好，很高兴为您解答！ Wall Street的翻译是华尔街，您所说的这个词语，是属于CMA核心词汇的一个，这个词的意义如下：1. 纽约股票交易所所在的纽约街道。2. 纽约股票交易所本身。3. 也是纽约市金融机构的统称，包括股票交易所、银行、商品市场、货币市场等。 希望高顿网校的回答能帮助您解决问题，更多财会问题欢迎提交给高顿企业知道。高顿祝您生活愉快！
Wall Street是什么意思？
Wall Street
n.华尔街;
双语例句:
1, He's some big hoo-hah on wall street.
他可是华尔街的一个人物。
2, I work for the wall street journal, so does that make me a cia
agent?
我为华尔街日报工作就意味着我是中情局特工吗?
3, I met a wall street man.
我遇到一个华尔街的人。
4,You know it gets strange she's dating somebody from wall street?
你不为她正和一个来自华尔街的人约会而感到奇怪吗?
5,You don't think it's strange that she's dating somebody from wall
street?
你不觉得她爱上一个出身华尔街的男孩很奇怪吗?
为什么叫“Wall Street”？
“WALLSTREET”的来历
18日16:23 作者： 出自[]
说到华尔街，它的来历也是个有趣的故事。17世纪20年代，来自荷兰的早期开拓者在现在的纽约曼哈顿建立了他们的领地。他们把它叫做新阿姆斯特丹，取名于荷兰的阿姆斯特丹。
�� 当时的北美东海岸，来自欧洲各国的早期开拓者，势力比较强大的有英国、法国等国家。而荷兰的开拓者精于商业，他们在做生意上有着非常先进的商业思维。当时欧洲几乎所有比较先进的经商方式都起源于荷兰。荷兰人在国际贸易、股市的早期运作方式等等方面远远领先于其他国家。他们在现在的纽约这一世界上少有的深水良港建立了他们的贸易中心。在这里荷兰商人大把大把地赚钱。
��到了1650年以后，荷兰统治地新阿姆斯特丹的首席长官彼得·斯度文森开始担心周围的其它国家领地的军队会向他的城市发起进攻。在1652年的时候，英国和荷兰在欧洲也发生了战争。由于新阿姆斯特丹三面环海，只有北面和新英格兰相连接，彼得·斯度文森担心新英格兰的军队从北面的陆地上向他发起攻击，因此决定在城市的北面修造一座高墙，用来防御有可能发生的侵袭。
��和许多其他的统治者一样，斯度文森没有预料到海军的力量。当时英国的海上武力非常强大。到了1664年，英国开始进攻荷兰人的领地。他们没有从北面陆地上开始进攻，而是从海上把军舰停在了新阿姆斯特丹周围水面上。整个新阿姆斯特丹都在英国海军的炮火控制之下。荷兰人开始还准备抵抗，但考虑到他们几乎没有任何获胜的机会，就缴械投降了。
��从此新阿姆斯特丹就被改名为“纽约”。纽约的英文意思是“新约克”，之所以叫它“新约克”是因为当时他们把新阿姆斯特丹攻占之后作为一份生日礼物送给当时英国约克郡的公爵詹姆士。而斯度文森修建的高墙也成了一个没有任何用途的围墙，很快就被拆掉了，而围墙周围原用于军队操练的大片空地，现在就成为南来北往的车辆行人通行的必经之路，这个地方就自然而然地被称为“WALLSTREET”，即“华尔街”。英文“WALL”就是墙的意思。
��在英国人不费一枪一炮占领了新阿姆斯特丹并将它改名为纽约之后，这里的商业进一步蓬勃发展。但是也许谁也没有想到华尔街以后成为了全世界的金融中心，其影响力可以随时随地在世界的任何一个角落感受的到。在18世纪末、19世纪初的时候，越来越多的商人、证券商在华尔街的大树底下或灯柱旁边聚集，互相交易或拍卖他们手中的各种金融证券。纽约股票市场的雏形也就是在那个时候开始逐步形成的。
��纽约确实是个富于无穷魅力的世界大都市，自由女神像、中央公园、中国城、埃利斯岛、大都市博物馆，无不让人沉醉不知归路。
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华尔街名字由来？
华尔街是英文“Wall Street”的音译。华尔街的童年期是从1653年到19世纪末，纽约早期的迅速发展和金融业在纽约的兴起，与荷兰人的商业精神有相当大的关系。尽管资本主义的早期萌芽是从文艺复兴时期的意大利开始，但真正意义上的资本主义，是到了17世纪中叶在荷兰逐渐完善的。当时荷兰形成了一套非常完整的金融体系，包括银行、股票交易所、信用、保险、有限责任公司等，金融体系的发展催生了荷兰经济起飞，使得这面积很小的欧洲国家，一度成为世界上最强国家之一。当荷兰人移民到北美，将资本主义的商业精神带到了新阿姆斯特丹。扩展资料：华尔街的影响相较于商业街，华尔街通常指商业影响力大于中小型企业和中产阶级的公司企业，有时特别用来代表分析师、持股人、和诸如投资银行等金融机构。一般人对商业街的印象通常不外乎地区性的企业和银行，另一方面华尔街则普遍作为私有、重视自身利益的“美国企业”的代名词。有时华尔街会用以区别投资银行和财富500强企业在影响力、文化和生活方式上与小企业之间的差异。华尔街比任何事物都更能代表金融和经济力量。对美国人而言，有时华尔街等同精英主义、强权政治和割喉形态的资本主义，但同时华尔街也唤起美国人对市场经济的骄傲。在美国人的心目中，华尔街是一个依靠贸易、资本主义和创新，而非殖民主义和掠夺成长的国家和经济系统的象征。参考资料来源：百度百科-华尔街
华尔街铜牛的来历
与中国文化没有关系。
与“牛市”概念有关。英文原名叫：bull market。指证券市场行情普遍看涨，延续时间较长的大升市。 此处的证券市场，泛指常见的股票、债券、期货、选择权、外汇、可转让定存单、衍生性金融商品及其它各种证券。
与牛市相对的是“熊市”。
华尔街铜牛设计者是一位来自意大利西西里岛的艺术家，他叫阿图罗·迪·莫迪卡（Arturo Di Modica）。莫迪卡来美国多年后，想做一件东西一鸣惊人，好出人头地。他有一天突然想到华尔街是世界金融的心脏，如果有自己的作品放在这里定会引人注意。于是，莫迪卡开始创作一头铜牛，打算在1989年圣诞节的时候摆在华尔街证券交易所前面，祝福股市来年一牛冲天。经过近两年的运作，莫迪卡在1989年12月15日午夜，用一辆大卡车将他这头重达6300公斤的铜牛，偷偷运到华尔街纽约证券交易所门前那棵巨大的圣诞树下面，他盼望着第二天一早会发生奇迹。次日一大早他跑到证券交易所边上，果然他的铜牛已经被记者和警察围得水泄不通，从外面根本看不到牛了。纽约市政府盛怒之下，要求莫迪卡赶紧把铜牛拉走。就在这时，百老汇大街南端的BORLINGGREEN公园的负责人找到莫迪卡，让他把铜牛放到他们的公园里。莫迪卡打算把这座雕像出售给开价最高的买主，但买主必须将公牛雕像留在原地，并将公牛雕像捐赠给纽约市。现在铜牛成为纽约市的公共财产，不准任何人买卖，莫迪卡拥有肖像权。
新华社为什么把“wall 街”要翻译为“华尔街”
华尔街
外文名
Wall Street
因为单词wall的发音跟汉字“华尔”相似，所以音译为“华尔街”。
华尔街是纽约市曼哈顿区南部从百老汇路延伸到东河的一条大街道的名字，全长仅三分之一英里，宽仅为11米，是英文“Wall Street”的音译，原意为“大墙大街”。街道狭窄而短，从百老汇到东河仅有7个街段，却以“美国的金融中心”闻名于世。美国摩根财阀、洛克菲勒石油大王和杜邦财团等开设的银行、保险、航运、铁路等公司的经理处集中于此。著名的纽约证券交易所也在这里，至今仍是几个主要交易所的总部：如纳斯达克、美国证券交易所、纽约期货交易所等。“华尔街”一词现已超越这条街道本身，成为附近区域的代称，亦可指对整个美国经济具有影响力的金融市场和金融机构。
WallStreet作为借代词使用时
WallStreet作为借代词使用时是指华尔街(纽约一街名)。WallStreet原意是指墙街，后用来指代华尔街（Wall Street），纽约市曼哈顿区南部从百老汇路延伸到东河的一条大街道。全长仅三分之一英里，宽仅为11米。街道狭窄而短，从百老汇到东河仅有7个街段，却以“美国的金融中心”闻名于世。美国罗斯柴尔德财团、摩根财团、洛克菲勒石油大王、高盛集团和杜邦财团等开设的银行、保险、航运、铁路等公司的经理处集中于此。著名的纽约证券交易所也在这里，至今仍是几个主要交易所的总部：如纳斯达克、美国证券交易所、纽约期货交易所等。“华尔街”一词现已超越这条街道本身，成为附近区域的代称，亦可指对整个世界经济具有影响力的金融市场和金融机构。
关于华尔街介绍的英文文章
Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District. Wall Street was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange; over time Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood.[Wall Street is also shorthand (or a metonym) for the "influential financial interests" of the American financial industry, which is centered in the New York City area. Several major U.S. stock and other exchanges remain headquartered on Wall Street and in the Financial District, including the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NYMEX, and NYBOT.
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华尔街介绍：
Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District. It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange; over time Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood.[1] Wall Street is also shorthand (or a metonym) for the "influential financial interests" of the American financial industry, which is centered in the New York City area.[2]
Several major U.S. stock and other exchanges remain headquartered on Wall Street and in the Financial District, including the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NYMEX, and NYBOT.
History
View of Wall Street from corner of Broad Street, 1867: The building on the left was the U.S. Customs House. Today it's the home of the Federal Hall National Memorial.[show]New Netherland series
Exploration
Fortifications:
Fort Amsterdam
Fort Nassau (North)
Fort Orange
Fort Nassau (South)
Fort Goede Hoop
De Wal
Fort Casimir
Fort Altena
Fort Wilhelmus
Fort Beversreede
Fort Nya Korsholm
De Rondout
Settlements:
Noten Eylandt
New Amsterdam
Rensselaerswyck
New Haarlem
Noortwyck
Beverwyck
Wiltwyck
Bergen
Pavonia
Vriessendael
Achter Col
Vlissingen
Oude Dorpe
Colen Donck
Greenwich
Heemstede
Rustdorp
Gravesende
Breuckelen
New Amersfoort
Midwout
New Utrecht
Boswyck
Swaanendael
New Amstel
Nieuw Dorp
The Patroon System
Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions
Directors of New Netherland:
Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-25)
Willem Verhulst (1625-26)
Peter Minuit (1626-32)
Sebastiaen Jansen Krol(1632-33)
Wouter van Twiller (1633-38)
Willem Kieft (1638-47)
Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
People of New Netherland
New Netherlander
Twelve Men
Eight Men
Nine Men
Flushing Remonstrance
The name of the street derives from the fact that during the 17th century, Wall Street formed the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. In the 1640s basic picket and plank fences denoted plots and residences in the colony.[3] Later, on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant, in part using African slaves,[4] led the Dutch in the construction of a stronger stockade. A strengthened 12-foot (4 m) wall[5] of timber and earth, fortified by palisades, was created by 1653 .[3][5]
The wall was created, and strengthened over time, as a defense against attack from various Native American tribes. In 1685 surveyors laid out Wall Street along the lines of the original stockade.[5] The wall was dismantled by the British colonial government in 1699. In the late 18th century, there was a buttonwood tree at the foot of Wall Street under which traders and speculators would gather to trade informally. In 1792, the traders formalized their association with the Buttonwood Agreement. This was the origin of the New York Stock Exchange.[6]
In 1789, Federal Hall and Wall Street was the scene of the United States' first presidential inauguration. George Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall overlooking Wall Street on April 30, 1789. This was also the location of the passing of the Bill Of Rights.
In 1889, the original stock report, Customers' Afternoon Letter, became the The Wall Street Journal, named in reference to the actual street, it is now an influential international daily business newspaper published in New York City.[7] For many years, it had the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, although it is currently second to USA Today.[8] It has been owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. since 2007.
[edit] Decline and revitalization
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The Manhattan Financial District is one of the largest business districts in the United States, and second in New York City only to Midtown. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the corporate culture of New York was a primary center for the construction of skyscrapers (rivaled only by Chicago). The Financial District, even today, actually makes up a distinct skyline of its own, separate from but not soaring to quite the same heights as its midtown counterpart a few miles to the north.
September 16, 1920: a bomb exploded in front of the headquarters of J.P. Morgan Inc. at 23 Wall Street, killing 38 and injuring 300 people. Federal Hall (26 Wall Street), with its statue of George Washington, is shown on the right.Built in 1914, 23 Wall Street was known as the "House of Morgan" and for decades the bank's headquarters was the most important address in American finance. At noon, on September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded in front of the bank, killing 38 and injuring 300. Shortly before the bomb went off a warning note was placed in a mailbox at the corner of Cedar Street and Broadway. While theories abound about who was behind the Wall Street bombing and why they did it, after twenty years investigating the matter, the FBI rendered the file inactive in 1940 without ever finding the perpetrators. The explosion did, however, help fuel the Red Scare that was underway at the time.
A crowd gathers at the intersection of Wall and Broad streets after the 1929 crash. The New York Stock Exchange (18 Broad Street) is on the right. The majority of people are congregating in Wall Street on the left between the "House of Morgan" (23 Wall Street) and Federal Hall (26 Wall Street).The stock market crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. During this era, development of the financial district stagnated. Construction of the World Trade Center was one of the few major projects undertaken during the last three quarters of the 20th century and, financially, it was not originally as successful as planned. Some point to the fact that it was actually a government-funded project, constructed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with the intention of spurring economic development downtown. All the tools necessary for international trade were to be housed in the complex. However, at the beginning, much of the space remained vacant.
Nonetheless, some large and powerful firms did purchase space in the World Trade Center. Further, it attracted other powerful businesses to the immediate neighborhood. In some ways, it could be argued that the World Trade Center changed the nexus of the Financial District from Wall Street to the Trade Center complex. When the World Trade Center was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, it left somewhat of an architectural void as new developments since the 1970s had played off the complex aesthetically. The attacks, however, contributed to the loss of business on Wall Street, due to temporary-to-permanent relocation to New Jersey and further decentralization with establishments transferred to cities like Chicago, Denver, and Boston.
Wall Street itself and the Financial District as a whole are crowded with highrises by any measure. Further, the loss of the World Trade Center has actually spurred development in the Financial District on a scale that hadn't been seen in decades. This is in part due to tax incentives provided by the federal, state and local governments to encourage development.
A new World Trade Center complex, centered on Daniel Liebeskind's Memory Foundations plan, is in the early stages of development and one building has already been replaced. The centerpiece to this plan is the 1,776-foot (541 m) tall 1 World Trade Center (formally known as the Freedom Tower). New residential buildings are already sprouting up, and buildings that were previously office space are being converted to residential units, also benefiting from the tax incentives. Better access to the Financial District is planned in the form of a new commuter rail station and a new downtown transportation center centered on Fulton Street. If you look at the building on the left, you will see that it is most likely modeled after the Greek Parthenon.[9]
[edit] Buildings
Federal Hall, Wall Street.Wall Street's architecture is generally rooted in the Gilded Age, though there are also some art deco influences in the neighborhood. Landmark buildings on Wall Street include Federal Hall, 14 Wall Street (Bankers Trust Company Building), 40 Wall Street (The Trump Building), and the New York Stock Exchange at the corner of Broad Street.
[edit] Personalities
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Over the years, certain elite persons associated with Wall Street have become famous. Although their reputations are usually limited to members of the stock brokerage and banking communities, several have gained national and international fame. Some earned their fame for their investment strategies, financing, reporting, legal or regulatory skills, while others are remembered for their greed. One of the most iconic representations of the market prosperity is the Charging Bull sculpture, by Arturo Di Modica. Representing the bull market economy, the sculpture was originally placed in front of the New York Stock Exchange, and subsequently moved to its current location in Bowling Green.
Wall Street's culture is often criticized as being rigid. This is a decades-old stereotype stemming from the Wall Street establishment's protection of its interests, and the link to the WASP establishment. More recent criticism has centered on structural problems and lack of a desire to change well-established habits. Wall Street's establishment resists government oversight and regulation. At the same time, New York City has a reputation as a very bureaucratic city, which makes entry into the neighborhood difficult or even impossible for middle class entrepreneurs.
The ethnic background of Wall Streeters remains largely unchanged since the days of the railway barons of the early 1900s, as documented by their portraits in the Wall+Broad chapter of The Corners Project [10]
[edit] Cultural influence
[edit] Wall Street vs. Main Street
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Not just a metonym, Wall Street has a sign posted.As a figure of speech contrasted to "Main Street," the term "Wall Street" can refer to big business interests against those of small business and the working of middle class. It is sometimes used more specifically to refer to research analysts, shareholders, and financial institutions such as investment banks. Whereas "Main Street" conjures up images of locally owned businesses and banks. While the phrase "Wall Street" is commonly used interchangeably with the phrase "Corporate America," it is also sometimes used in contrast to distinguish between the interests, culture, and lifestyles of investment banks and those of Fortune 500 industrial or service corporations.
[edit] Perceptions
Trinity church from Wall Street.The older skyscrapers often were built with elaborate facades; such elaborate aesthetics haven't been common in corporate architecture for decades. The World Trade Center, built in the 1970s, was very plain and utilitarian in comparison (the Twin Towers were often criticized as looking like two big boxes, despite their impressive height).[citation needed]
Wall Street, more than anything, represents financial and economic power. To Americans, Wall Street can sometimes represent elitism and power politics. Wall Street became the symbol of a country and economic system that many Americans see as having developed through trade, capitalism, and innovation.[11] However, due to the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent federal bailouts, Americans are enraged at Wall Street.
[edit] In popular culture
Herman Melville's classic short story Bartleby, the Scrivener is subtitled A Story of Wall Street and provides an excellent portrayal of a kind and wealthy lawyer's struggle to reason with that which is unreasonable as he is pushed beyond his comfort zone to "feel" something real for humanity.
In William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, Jason Compson hits on other perceptions of Wall Street: after finding some of his stocks are doing poorly, he blames "the jews."
The film Die Hard with a Vengeance involves thieves breaking into the federal reserve and stealing most of its gold bullion by driving dump trucks through a nearby Wall Street subway station.
Many events of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall Street and its culture.
On January 26, 2000, the band Rage Against The Machine filmed the music video for "Sleep Now in the Fire" on Wall Street, which was directed by Michael Moore. The band at one point stormed the Stock Exchange, causing the doors of the Exchange to be closed early (2:52 P.M.). Trading on the Exchange floor, however, continued
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Charging Bull (sometimes called the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull) is a 3,200 kg (7,000 pound) bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green park near Wall Street in New York City.
Standing 11 feet tall[1] (and measuring 16 feet in length[2]), the oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge. As author Dianne Durante described the sculpture: "The Bull's head is lowered, its nostrils flare, and its wickedly long, sharp horns are ready to gore; it's an angry, dangerous beast. The muscular body twists to one side, and the tail is curved like a lash: the Bull is also energetic and in motion." The gleaming bronze colour and hard, metallic texture of the sculpture's surface emphasises the brute force of the creature depicted. The work was designed and placed so that viewers could walk around it, which also suggests the creature's own movement is unrestricted — a point reinforced by the twisting posture of the bull's body, Durante wrote. "Charging Bull, then, shows an aggressive or even belligerent force on the move, but unpredictably. [...] [I]t's not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market."[3]
"That bull is one of an edition of five", Di Modica told the New York Daily News in 1998. "I'm hoping the other four will be going to cities all over the world, whenever somebody buys them."[4]
The sculpture is both a popular tourist destination, which draws thousands of people a day as well as "one of the most iconic images of New York"[5] and "Wall Street icon"[6] — an unofficial symbol of the Financial District which has appeared in television reports as an image punctuating stories about optimism in the financial market.
Construction and installation
Di Modica spent some US$ 360,000 to create, cast, and install the sculpture following the 1987 stock market crash as a symbol of the "strength and power of the American people."[2] The sculpture was the artist's idea, not the city's. In an act of "guerrilla art", he trucked it to Lower Manhattan and on December 15, 1989, installed it beneath a 60-foot Christmas tree in the middle of Broad Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift to the people of New York. That day, crowds came to look at the bull, with hundreds stopping to admire and analyze the gift as Di Modica handed out copies of a flier about his artwork.[2]
The police seized the sculpture and placed it into an impound lot. The ensuing public outcry led the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to install it two blocks south of the Exchange in the plaza at Bowling Green. It faces up Broadway.[7]
[edit] Ownership
In 2004, Di Modica announced that the bull sculpture was for sale, on condition the buyer does not move it from its present location. Di Modica continues to own the copyright to the statue. In 2006, Di Modica sued Wal-Mart and other companies for illegally benefiting from his copyright, by selling replicas of the bull and using it in advertising campaigns.[8] In 2009, Di Modica sued Random House for using a photo of the bull on the cover of a book discussing the collapse of financial services firm Lehman Brothers.[9]
Since New York City does not own the sculpture, it is technically on a temporary permit allowing it to stand on city property, but the temporary permission has lasted since 1989 (when city officials said the new location would not be permanent[10]). Art on loan is usually limited to a year's display. (Although the city does not buy art, it accepts donations.)[11] A writer in the New York Daily News wrote in 1998 that the statue's placement was "beginning to look a mite permanent".[4] According to an article in Art Monthly, Di Modica, "the authorities, and New York public, view it as a permanent feature of Lower Manhattan."[12]
[edit] As a tourist attraction
As soon as the sculpture was set up at Bowling Green, it became "an instant hit".[11] One of the city's most photographed artworks, it has become a tourist destination in the Financial District. "[I]ts popularity is beyond doubt", a New York Times article said of the artwork. "Visitors constantly pose for pictures around it." Adrian Benepe, the New York City parks commissioner, said in 2004, "It's become one of the most visited, most photographed and perhaps most loved and recognized statues in the city of New York. I would say it's right up there with the Statue of Liberty."[1] In 1993, Arthur J. Piccolo, chairman of the Bowling Green Association, made the same point with the same comparison.[11] Henry J. Stern, the city parks commissioner when the statue first appeared in the Financial District, said in 1993: "People are crazy about the bull. It captured their imagination."[11]
The statue's popularity with tourists has a very international appeal. One 2007 newspaper report noted a "ceaseless stream" of visitors from India, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Venezuala and China, as well as the United States. Children enjoy climbing on the bull,[13] which sits "famously"[3] at street level on the cobblestones at the far northern tip of the small park. One popular tourist guidebook assumes that a visitor will want to get his or her picture taken with the statue ("after you pose with the bull [...]").[14] A popular Bollywood movie, Kal Ho Naa Ho features the bull in a musical number, increasing its familiarity with Indians. One visitor told a newspaper reporter it was a reason for his visit.[5]
In addition to having their pictures taken at the front end of the bull, many tourists pose at the back of the bull, near the large testicles "for snapshots under an unmistakable symbol of its virility."[15] According to a Washington Post article in 2002, "People on The Street say you've got to rub the nose, horns and testicles of the bull for good luck, tour guide Wayne McLeod would tell the group on the Baltimore bus, who would giddily oblige."[16] According to a 2004 New York Times article, "Passers-by have rubbed — to a bright gleam — its nose, horns and a part of its anatomy that, as Mr. Benepe put it gingerly, 'separates the bull from the steer.'"