【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode5-1/5)

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来自不同文化的人不仅使用不同的语言，而且他们运用非语言沟通的方式也不同。当人们用与我们不同的非语言方式进行交流时，往往会出现一些问题。跟本期主播Marc Beeby一起来看看交流的特点吧。
       

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        Rebecca Fong
        Dionne Charmaine
        Jamaica
        Kyung-ja Yoo
        Eilidh Hamilton
        Syria
        Mediterranean
        Jamaican
        Scandinavian
         
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Human beings have a tendency to react positively to sameness and negatively to difference. So if people use nonverbal communication in ways we recognise, we tend to think of them as people we can get on with. When people use nonverbal communication in a way that is different from what we're used to, there can be problems. And nonverbal communication can vary enormously from culture to culture. But what is nonverbal communication? Well, I suppose the first thing most of us would think of when we hear that phrase is how we communicate using our bodies - our body language - the way we use our hands, our faces, our eyes. Here's Rebecca Fong again with comments from Dionne Charmaine from Jamaica, Kyung-ja Yoo from Japan, and Eilidh Hamilton, who spent several years in Syria.
The degree to which we use our bodies to accompany our verbal messages varies a lot from culture to culture, so that some cultures, African Americans for example or Mediterranean cultures will throw their arms around and move around a lot when they're speaking.
Jamaicans do that a lot they have a lot of gestures , lot of hand movements. You know, the hand movements indicate that you've kind of lost control in terms of what you're putting across, you're just, just so, so emotionally caught up or so angry or whatever. And again if somebody's angry you'll get the hands above the head and so on.
Scandinavians on the other hand are much cooler and don't really move their bodies so much when they're talking. Japanese, for example, think that it's a violation of social harmony to imprint your individuality and your ideas on the world with your arms as you're speaking.
We don't use body language. I wouldn't say not at all, but we don't use our hands or arms when we are talking. And in Japan, especially women, really doesn't stare at the people.