Where do We Stand?
Lisa
Davis
In
this essay the writer is trying to show how the body position can have non-
verbal communication. Though the position of the body, the people also
communicated their cultural differences not only between the countries but also
within the same country.
The
people from middle east are been to make physical intimacy where the Americans
maintains a distance when a businessman of middle east steps forward the
Americans steps backwards as far as possible.
The
difference of personal space is with in access. The male and the female of the
same location show different physical intimacy. The female would like to come
quite closer than the males.
The
cultural differences can be seen in classroom environment the American culture
teaches the students to make a direct eye contact with the teacher whereas the Asian
student feel it as disrespect to the teachers. One the other hand an American
teacher feels it as insult if the students break of the eye contact. Similarly,
a Japanese unless fell quite uncomfortable when his American partner deals with
him informal manner.
Key points.
a)
American use more eye contact than do the Japanese.
b)
South
Americans conjure at a close distance then do the northern Europeans.
c)
Saudi
Arabians show more physical contact than the Americans. They show intimacy by
holding hands walk in the street joining the hands but the American hate it.
d)
Men
keep greater distance than the women and women tend to make more eye contact
than the man.
e)
The
Asian try to understand a person though sense perception and they go quite
close to a person but the Americans try to understand though gestures.
f)
The
Asian students show respect to the teacher by breaking the direct eye contact
with the teacher there as the western students maintains it through direct eye
contact.
Main theme
Where
do you stand? Is an essay by Lisa Davis in which she is focusing on the importance
of intercultural studies, specially the location of the body? It is obvious the
meaning of the body differs from culture to culture group to group with in a
country even between the gender and so on. there is a greater chance at
misunderstanding about body position and consequently there is a disaster in
order to prevent the misunderstanding at the detail I is necessary to study
inter-cultural practices.
In
the present time the entire world has became a global village and he people
have earn inter-cultural practices to avoid he possible misunderstand,
specially the people of business world are prove to each misunderstand. They
have to deal with people from different world on might be showing the sense of
intimacy but the same manner might be unnatural for the other for example
holding hands is a sign of showing affection to the other in the eastern
culture but they looks really unnatural in American culture , similarly making
on eye contact with the teacher or concern person is a sign of respect in
American cultural Whereas it is a sign of disrespect in eastern culture underbelly
if a Nepalese student those to Americans classes he finds the classroom
environment really strange unless he is given the version of intercultural
studies.
Therefore
the unlike justifies tact he need for inter-culture studies has became and
essential part in the modern situation specially with globalization. It would
bee much easier for the people of alliance culture to appreciate the culture of
the other people of they know that keeping physical intimacy and despair differs
from people to people.
