Business Setting and nonverbal communication
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Cultural etiquette in China – balancing between being society-bound and independent
The People
Deeply rooted in Chinese society is the need to belong and conform to a unit, whether the family, a political party or an organization. The family is the focus of life for most Chinese. Age and rank are highly respected. However, to the dismay of older people, today’s young people are rapidly modernizing, wearing blue jeans and sunglasses, drinking Coke and driving motorbikes.
Meeting and Greeting
- Shake hands upon meeting. Chinese may nod ……………
Cultural Etiquette in Germany –
a balancing act between guide and stereotype
well, people here in Germany aren`t like this in everyday life. 😉
Though this etiquette mirrors some German principles, we nowadays have defined th things down. Fortunately. 😉
The People
Germans value order, privacy and punctuality. They are thrifty, hard working and industrious. Germans respect …………..
Read MoreChinese language is body-language (6) – an apple is not an apple –
When remembering the experience in Düsseldorf I begin to understand one important difference between the German and Chinese way of writing / painting graphics and letters. We know about the meaning of a letter and a word, independent from writing this letter or word in a proper way. So we do not feel any necessity to write in a proper way, with concentration or full awareness. We know: an apple is an apple. And if we write this word in a readable way it is ok to do so.
To me it seems that this is quite different to ………..
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….I realize that you often read my blog. Who ever you are and what ever interest you have, I would be pleased if you could comment some of my posts. Or / and pick up some contact to me. I would like to ………
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Let’s think about relationship
Let’s think about being a little girl, a little child and being old and growing down to the earth. These two people, the smart little girl and the old (bowed?) woman represent relationship in so far as the child is aware of the people around her but does not have to be always engaged with these people. The child goes out to his own future and …………
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Three faces – one face
The older you get, the more you’re yourself
I’m convinced about this wisdom of life.
Of course, if you look at these three women on the photo you see different faces. There’s quite a lot of similar expression on the grandma’s face and the daughter’s face concerning the nose, forehead and the upper part of the face. There is less similarity to the granddaughter there. On the other hand there’s ………….
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Body approach in China and Japan
Dear Ulrich,
I read your report on Psyche and Körper in Ost und West with great interest.
The differences between China and the west seem much greater than between Japan and the west.
I never worked in China, but went many times to Japan.
In Japan at first every client in a group expected to behave like others in the group.
There was a lot of social mask and group conformity.
When I was able, through somatic interventions, to get below this “tertiary layer” of personality, and could reach
the primary layer, I found a lot of emotional health, vitality and spontaneity coming from the early pre school years.
The secondary layer of anger, fear of sadness could only be contacted when trust from this primary layer had been established.
Wishing you all the best in your intercultural research
Warm greetings
David (Boadella)
Interrupting Communication 2
To begin with: Between China and western countries I think there is a big and important difference in living feelings, (cognitive) demands, (self-) control, a relationship and love. A difference which produces a lot irritation, disappointment, sadness, anger, hope and felling lost on the one hand or dependent on the other.
A week ago a friend of mine told me about his experience when the communication between his Chinese girl-friend and him was interrupted in a way which he could not understand and follow. They had had a relationship for say about one and a half years and they had been really in love with each other. After the relationship broke, they decided to go on being good friends but without a love-friendship. Both agreed ……………..
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