【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode4-4/5)

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人们往往以为交流是简单而又单一的方式。可是本期主播Marc Beeby认为交流并不只是一个简单的过程，它其间还有很多其妙的事情发生。一起来听听吧。
       

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        Rebecca
        Rajni Badlani
        Emma
        Namibia
       
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The distinction between cultures that like to talk, verbal cultures and nonverbal cultures, where people feel that talk can sometimes be a problem, affects two very important areas of communication, how we deal with problems, disagreements, or conflicts, and how we manage or take turns, during a conversation. Here, Rebecca gets help from Rajni Badlani from India, and Emma from Namibia.
If we look at the issue of turn-taking, imagine you're in a conversation and you've come to the end of what you want to say, somebody will take over from you to continue the conversation and later you will take over from them, so the conversation goes backwards and forwards a bit like a game of tennis if you like. Turn-taking is very different from culture to culture.
The turn-taking conventions are very different. We intervene, interrupt very differently than say the people in the west do. I mean we don't wait for the person to finish the point if we have something to say we don't think it rude to intervene.
Not all of our everyday communication is to do with exchanging ideas, quite a lot of it is to do with dealing with problems and conflict and how every culture deals with these confrontations in a different way is known as cultural confrontation styles.
Communication wise in Namibia , we do have a culture of listening. At the same time, my way of arguing is not answering back. I'll just listen to what this person is saying, whether they are right or wrong, and come back at a time when they have clamed down and talk to them in a calm way. But if you are silent and you don't know how to answer the person you can come back with a second person and this person can be your spokesperson. That's how we communicate also in Namibia.