Non Verbal Communication Analysis

In the article, Lisa Davis is trying to show how the body position can have non- verbal communication. Though the position of the body, the people also communicated their cultural differences not only between the countries but also within the same country. The people from middle east are been to make physical intimacy where the Americans maintains a distance when a businessman of middle east steps forward the Americans steps backwards as far as possible. The difference of personal space is with in access. The male and the female of the same location show different physical intimacy. The female would like to come quite closer than the males. The cultural differences can be seen in classroom environment the American culture teaches the students to make a direct eye contact with the teacher whereas the Asian student feel it as disrespect …show more content…
They show intimacy by holding hands walk in the street joining the hands but the American hate it.
d) Men keep greater distance than the women and women tend to make more eye contact than the man.
e) The Asian try to understand a person though sense perception and they go quite close to a person but the Americans try to understand though gestures.
f) The Asian students show respect to the teacher by breaking the direct eye contact with the teacher there as the western students maintains it through direct eye contact.
Main theme Where do you stand? Is an essay by Lisa Davis in which she is focusing on the importance of intercultural studies, specially the location of the body? It is obvious the meaning of the body differs from culture to culture group to group with in a country even between the gender and so on. there is a greater chance at misunderstanding about body position and consequently there is a disaster in order to prevent the misunderstanding at the detail I is necessary to study inter-cultural