Communication and Direct Eye Contact

Where Do We stay? O Lisa Davis Lisa Davis in this article foc usances on cross-cultural difference in the enjoyment of personal space and on conflicts and misapprehension that often arises from these differences. She maintains that with enough training and preaching. hoi polloi can learn non-verbal habitat of otherwise culture and minimize intercultural problems. She says the main pose of non-verbal conflict is the tendency for slew to pertain the non-verbal pattern of other culture in terms of the pattern within their accept culture.These ethnocentric viewings of reality often solution in misinterpretation negative value judgment and ascertaining of discomfort. 1) American use more leave eye hitting than do Japanese (Para 6) 2) South American converse at a public press distant and establish more direct eye run into than do some other European. (Para 7) 3) Men tend to converse at a greater distance than do women. (Para 8&9) 4) Women established more look contact tha n do men. (Para 9) ) Russians argon a higher contact, a wad whereas establishes be a non-contact group. (para10) 6) Caucasians should view a pupil avoidance of eye contact as mansion of deception whereas Asian teachers assure such avoidance as sign of foreign. (Para 11) 7) An American who is used to standing on the corner of elevator and avoiding eyes contact with other people will feel that something is wearing if someone stand by a few inches away. (Para 17) 8) South Arabian men often hold grant while walking but American men dont. t is all important(p) to follow the foreign countrys ways when people go to foreign country because in that respect are huge differences between have got country and foreign country. Especially, the way of conversation yields peopleconfuse. According to Where Do We jut by Lisa Davis, people have antithetic way of non-verbal communication, which depends on their cultural sticker ground and gender. As a result, people sometimes feel uncomfor table when they move on with other people. In Japan, there are some different communications styles, which makeforeignerconfuse.