Communicating with Different Cultures

When I think about communicating with the different groups, cultures, or colleagues, I find myself have a different subject to talk about.  For instance, if I am at church or Sunday school, we mainly talk about what we have done for the week in relation to the Sunday school lesson.  In my sorority, we are constantly talking communicating about what has been happening in our life.  This is because we only see each other in our monthly meetings or at a function we may be sponsoring.  For instance, we recently had a function; at the function was a college friend that I had not seen in years.  Therefor e we were not only glad to see each other, but our conversation went on about how was the family, how are the kids in school, how is my business, how is her principle job. 

Communicating with different cultures is usually a conversation about the weather if do not know the person.  Then, it would lead to what part of the country you from.  Then telling them that I wish I could go there if I had not visited there before.  I am not really big on a lot of words, but I try to may a conversation anywhere or with anyone I see mainly I am a listner. 

The strategies that I would use to help communicate more effective is learn a person perceptual screening  to help reduce the amount of events and perception we need to process at any given time.  The second would be recognizing the communication style to recognize the different topics that is being feed. And last always use the Platinum Rule.

Our Nonverbal Communications

The television show I chose to watch was The King of Queens.  While watching this show with the volume off, I had no idea what was going on.  I figure the characters in the show out because it was only three main one.  There was a wife, a husband, and an older man.   I figured that husband because he came in from work and kissed the lady and all the conversations were with her.  I figured that the husband was a postman like working for UPS or something. I could never figure what kind of work the wife did; she would come in from work with a brief case.  So I think she must work corporate or something. 

Looking at their facial expression, I think the husband was upset about something from work.  The props told me the wife was planning a trip to France, why I could not figure that out.  The dad was upset also.  He was on the phone waving his hands around in the air, frowning, and walking back and forth. 

When I turned the volume on the show, my assumptions were correct about the husband and the wife.  The old man was the wife father.  The trip the wife was planning was a vacation for the two of them to France.  But the husband was upset because the days the wanted off were taken but later became available. The old man was upset because he didn’t want a prize he won, and was tried of holding on the phone.  The plot they were going on vacation but in an RV. 

After reviewing this show, that I never took the time to watch and I don’t watch much television anyway. I feel that some times that I can read the facial expressions and but I just make any assumptions of anything.  Although we may read some facial expression, we should never assume the situation is bad or good just know that the person is apart the conversation and trying to make the best of it.