Posts Tagged ‘cross-cultural communication’
Greetings, or “What am I supposed to do with your hand?”
Anyone who’s ever left the States–hell, anyone who’s left a small hometown for a big city, or vice versa–knows that awkward squishy feeling of saying your how-do-you-do’s. Especially in a foreign culture, it’s a guessing game of non-verbals…a form of communication which itself is totally unreliable, because non-verbals are not universal. That cute little informal [...]
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