Santiago Personal Space Analysis

The main idea of this post is how personal space varies from person to person. Everyone has a specific amount of space they choose to have around certain people. In this post, we get to realize the way people from other countries see our own culture. According to this post, people from Puerto Rico are a lot more comfortable around other people than we Americans are. “Puerto Rico paisanos keep a close distance when talking to each other.” Serafin Roldan-Santiago states this within the post, perfectly matching what I’m trying to say, Santiago himself comes from Puerto Rico and tells us that people from Puerto Rico have no trouble talking close to each other unlike Americans. In this post, we can read and experience precisely how other cultures, realize that we Americans are not comfortable enough with each other to even speak closely to one another. …show more content…
At a gasoline station, Santiago met a fellow in order to ask for directions, the fellow backed off a bit in order to get on his comfortable proximity from strangers. Santiago without realizing the situation approached the fellow in order to get closer to him. Once again the fellow moved in a backward position, at this moment is when Santiago realized that he was getting too close to the fellow’s personal space. Santiago explains, “I just moved towards him making no thought of why he acted the way he did.” It’s extremely surprising how people from other parts of the world are accustomed to speaking at a very close