The Importance Of Miscommunication

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“Always put yourself in others ' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.” ― Rachel Grady. I wish that everyone could be able to really understand the meaning of this quote. Deciding what college to attend was a very hard task for me. Deciding between staying close to home or going to the United States, which many things would change, had me thinking for a long time. My first language has always being Spanish. Yes, I know English but I don’t perfectly speak it nor write it. I finally made my decision. I knew that I had a future in front of me and going to the United States was going to be an unforgettable experience and a big advantage when enter the real world. I was very worried about my poor language ability and experiencing a very different culture. I was very scared of how I was going to be treated and how fast I was going to habituate in that world. I knew all the consequences and problems I was going to deal with but I still was very sure about my decision. We, people from other places, completely understand how miscommunication has grow now a days. …show more content…
Today’s society face some miscommunication problems but people don’t notice them. When the Mexican was in jail for illegally crossing the border is when we experienced one of the miscommunication situations in Ríos essay. The man was put in the cells and forgotten for a couple of days. It is said that he didn’t say a word because of his manners and respects. He thought he was supposed to be quite. With this we learn about the different cultures everyone has. The man could have been treated from a very different form if he would know the rules of that culture. It’s impressive how the man didn’t say a word because of not knowing that culture. With this situation we notice how common is miscommunication and how a lot of people experience it without noticing. This is a situation everyone had been through once in their lives. Another story was that Alberto Ríos was a teacher in a high school in Arizona. He was teaching 2 groups that day. The first one he said was among gifted kids. In that class a fire alarm rang and nobody got up. They were having a lot of fun. We see how good were the morals of these kids. In the other class, which was non-gifted. A boy, who didn’t care that much about school, ask him if he really like poetry. Ríos responded said yes. He then asks how many fights you had? And Ríos responded just one like you. We can see that the students was trying to understand why he was so in to poetry. He didn’t understand it. We can connect this with the different cultures and traditions everyone has. We have to put ourselves in other peoples shoes to understand them and they can feel comfortable. Language is more than what we say, its what we actually say it and how we understand it. We have to also look at the perspective of the outsiders or the ones unfamiliar with some cultures. They tend to accommodate themselves in those cultures but its not always easy. They might be very scared and don’t know what to expected. They may feel useless and it may restrict them to do many things. They would never feel

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