Communication Between Cultures

committee and the news media. They believed that the Toyota spokespersons failed “to show adequate remorse for those who had bee ...

professional poker players seek to hide behind their dark glasses or a hooded sweat- shirt during a tournament. The impact of ey ...

Americans are not aware of the Japanese use of eye contact. U.S. Americans who are culturally uninformed often assume that Japan ...

who“consider sustained eye contact when speaking directly to someone as rude. Direct eye contact with superiors may be interpret ...

3.Social politeness touching is associated with greeting and showing appreciation. These contacts can range from a handshake to ...

Touch is less frequent among Germans and Finns.^97 Intentional touching is also not a prevalent form of communication in Asia.^9 ...

Speaking more directly about the role of smell in human communication, Richmond, McCroskey, and Hickson tell us,“The air around ...

Paralanguage This next form of nonverbal communication is predicated on the belief that the sounds we generate, apart from the m ...

Co-cultures also use vocal qualifiers in subtle and unique ways. For example, many African Americans use more inflection and emp ...

appointment, or remains silent after you reveal some personal information. In each of these instances you would find yourself re ...

privacy (England, the United States, Swe- den, Germany, and Australia) generally demand more space than do collective cultures. ...

New inmates quickly learn the culture of prison by finding the correct ways to use space. They soon discover how and when to ent ...

form of nonverbal communication. Not only do seating arrangements signal power relations, as was the case with the Israeli and T ...

is often arranged to achieve privacy and interpersonal isolation. It is a way of circum- venting interaction. People who value c ...

Let us look now not only athowcultures teach, but alsowhatthey teach about the use of time. To accomplish this, we will examine ...

the people involved.”^149 A lower-status person in Japan would wait much longer for someone of higher status than they would for ...

view and the pace of life is pointed out by Abu-Gharbieh:“Throughout the Arab world, there is nonchalance about time and deadlin ...

relationships, not tasks, are important.“A polychronic view of time sees the mainte- nance of harmonious relationships as the im ...

U.S. Americans grow up perceiving silence as a frightening experience. This is one reason they try to fill up the silence with“s ...

with“talk”over silence in the popularity of radio and television programs called“talk shows.” Members of the dominant culture no ...