Edward Hall Beyond Culture Summary

Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He was one of the founders of intercultural communication study. His main focus is how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined in personal space. Hall’s book ‘Beyond Culture’ was produced in 1976. Many of Hall’s ideas and insights are both incisive and original. Having been written in the year 1976, the book is a celebration that is associated with human capacities. This is because the humanities have quite for a long time taken their life less serious and for granted while ignoring the cultural communities that surround them. In order for the humankind to get back their senses of perspective together …show more content…
The major solution of the issues and problems that come as a result of the contemporary society aspect, mainly in a world where the diverse cultures of different communities have increased contacts with one another, is achievable only if each of the communities from diverse sides can be able to transcend the main aspects together with the ingrained stereotypes that are available in their culture. However, the major barrier to this aspect by Edward Hall in Beyond Culture is enhanced by the fact that the people’s mind will always carry and posses huge portions and parts of the its own programmed cultural behaviors together with the attitudes in their sub consciousness thoughts. For instance, in reference to Beyond Culture, the main problem that is evident in western culture mainly the United States is the issues of the malfunctions of the education system in the United States, since many critics have labeled it as full or many errors, irrelevant and obsolete simply because they argue it is over-bureaucratized (Mackinnon, …show more content…
This is because when a person enters a community with a different culture, the most overt behaviors will remain apparent. On the other side, the more an individual spends time with newly discovered culture, the more they are likely to uncover and understand their beliefs, life patterns and values. In Beyond Culture, the author argues that one must spend time with another culture in order to understand their ways of living. Edward Hall, an experienced anthropologist and psychoanalyst, believes and views western culture as contemporary. This is because he believes that the western culture is constrained by the linear reasoning and think methods (Mackinnon, 74). The extension of human language has resulted to transference extension of language mainly being with synonymous intelligence. He describes verbal ability as the unreasonably emphasize in education mainly at the expense of other parts of the mind of humans. The visual and auditory memory skills of the human beings have been studied widely at the outlay of supplementary memory systems. For example, body movements. He says there are two of the visual memories in humans. The main emphasis by the author is mainly on the nonverbal culture realm instead of other aspects such as art, language, and religion. For instance, the modern United States has minimal