Barriers to communication Across Culture

The topics for today are ones of my favorites , Have you thought  about why we as Colombians talk too much, we don’t go to the pint, when we is in France can be have a bad situation when a French guy go straight to the point and give a feedback without making soft . Why is difficult to understand a Chinese? So, this explanation could give you a context about these questions and then you can use in your favor. The first one in the two context in communication.

Low context and High context 

Low context cultures are: Germans ,Australians, North Americans, English amount other . What they have in common? The communication is verbal that means that the words that the are saying are exactly the ones that you have to understand , they are logic go straight to the point(highly explicit) and if you don’t understand is their responsibility something they do wrong.

And the other one is High context are the ones: Chinese, Brazilians, we Colombians, Korean, Japanese among others. What is the deal of them? Totally opposite from the low ones. When they are talking you have to take in mind that the most important things are happening in the non-verbal communication; they are not explicit, they are more guide with the context and if you don’t get the message is your fault not of them.

When we as  Colombians talk each other doesn’t happen or between British , but the thinks that you have to take in mind are three question.

• 1.      Which one am I?
• 2.      Which one my pother party is?
• 3.      How I will use that information in my advantages?

Let’s look the next imagine , now is easy to understand since it show in what thing each of the dimensions focus in a conversation.

Non-verbal communication

This topic is in  my opinion the most important in this blog because with you can understand many thing in the air or context .Non-verbal communication are all the actions. Signal of the body that you perform all the time ,your face(facial excretion), how you sit, if you cross your arms  or not when you are talking , in other word. Everything that you do communicates. when you are in a date or a business appointment , if you know how are the excretions and what they mean, you win the deal.

What could be more important verbal or non-verbal communication in an interview?

This question could be very important for me and my classmates that are going to finishing the university in 6 month, after that we will have many interviews to enter a company and this topic that we saw in class will be very useful.

I found that "Body language comprises 55% of the force of any response, whereas the verbal content only provides 7%, and paralanguage, or the intonation -- pauses and sighs given when answering -- represents 38% of the emphasis." Based on CollegeJournal reports (Doyle), so for as will be more important the non-verbal communication .I found 7 mistake that could confirm us that non-verbal is more important (Quast, 2013).

• ·         Unusual handshake : if is too hard means arrogance and if is too soft means insecurity
• ·         Poor or too much eye contact means that you are not interested in the job
• ·         Poor posture you could communicate that you are lazy or arrogant
• ·         Too much cologne/after shave/perfume you could have problems with the interview that could be a distractor.

    References:

Doyle, A. (s.f.). How to Use Nonverbal Communication to Impress. About careers .

Quast, L. (2013). Job Seekers: Avoid These 7 Nonverbal Mistakes In Job Interviews. Forbes.