Examples Of Cultural Differences In North Carolina

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In my paper, I will discuss about cultural space and on how I observed on the activity that I chose which is in North Carolina. Two days ago, I went to Carolina Beach in Wilmington, North Carolina for my little vacation. I observed a lot of people with different ages, different heights, different genders and different racial. I observed a lot of different things like children playing in the sand like always. I also observed some couples laying down on the beach right next to each other and were all quiet except the lady was saying something and showing this guy her phone and then I saw how this guy put his thumbs up and nodded his head like he didn’t say anything to her. I feel like that is one of example of nonverbal. There are restaraunt are like close by. I went to observe there and see how people interact there. I saw most of the young people are waiting in the line at some booth for alcohol. They were all excited and talking to each other and made eye contacts but they were close to each other too. There was two …show more content…
It was interesting because in my whole life, I always stare at people like I don't mean to be rude but I always like to watch people on how they dressed, how they talk to each other, or how they acted so I feel like it implies on what I am learning about non-verbal and it is easier for me to observe. I feel like every day, more people are having problems in nonverbal communication like, technology has taken over us. They didn't really make eye contact or less of touching or space. In my deaf culture, we MUST have eye contact when we are communicating. It is rude to us if people don't make eye contacts. I observed on how hearing people at the beach communicate through non-verbal like with less eye contact are easy for them or not a really problem to

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