Where Do You Stand

Where do you stand? / Lisa Davis / BA English

Where do you 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...