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What is the secret?

By: Ulrich Sollmann
16-05-2012
intercultural

What is the secret?

…..I often ask myself, when facing this excluding smile, the secret recipee which can break down or open up the unseen wall of smile.

I remember what I read about the importance of group life in China. And the self-evidence of group behaviour. The group is important. The group gives relational orientation. The group makes sense for the Chinese. The group offers identity.

And the group is the base, the impulse and the structure for social life.

Well I am different. I am not Chinese. ……………………

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Smiling also can exclude….

By: Ulrich Sollmann
15-05-2012
intercultural, nonverbal communication

Smiling also can exclude….

Some days ago I told you about having met three Chinese picking nettles. It was an interesting and charming encounter, though we did not understand their language. And they had problems to understand us. On the way home my wife and I talked about this experience whereas I remembered some other experience.

As usual, when going out for shopping on Saturday, I meet some Chinese groups near our university. Some Chinese students, male and female, stand together, talking, laughing and being busy shopping. They cling together and seem to be very happy, as happy as they seem to be on all those photos which can be seen on facebook or some other social media posting.

Well, remember the kind of friends they feel connected to on facebook for example. It´s almost Chinese only.  For me it seems as if everybody knows each other. Every Chinese knows all other Chinese. ;-)……………………………..

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Words and face and words……and understanding

By: Ulrich Sollmann
08-05-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

Words and face and words……and understanding

When my wife and I had a walk yesterday we met two Chinese women and one Chinese man picking some grass or so. Wondering what they really were picking up made us come closer and ask them. Quite a bit puzzled and uncertain how to react they smiled at us very openly and friendly.

No words followed. — More smile.

We repeated our question more slowly and smiled also a bit puzzled. And looked at the same time at their hands which held the stinging nettles. We now knew, but…..still stayed there not knowing whether to leave or to go on communicating.

Again no word. Some almost whispering words………………………….

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To meet the strange in yourself

By: Ulrich Sollmann
07-05-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

To meet the strange in yourself

If one understands training as: organized activity aimed at imparting information and / or instructions to improve the recipient´s performance or to help him or her to attain level of knowledge or skill, training just is a necessary step on the way to improve.

Intercultural training as preparing yourself for meeting people from another culture means most of all especially in the beginning nonverbal communication. As you cannot speak the language or understand what is meant between the lines you are just open with all your senses: Your eyes look and try to figure out what it´s all about. Often you see but don´t understand. Your ears listen to some kind of strange sound which you probably have never heard before. Your nose smells extraordinary strange, ……………………………

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Why do we need intercultural training?

By: Ulrich Sollmann
06-05-2012
intercultural, nonverbal communication

Why do we need an intercultural training?

This morning I read some notes on Obamas search for identity when he was young. As son of black father from Kenia in Africa and a white mother from the Midwest in the US he searched for his identity. Obama said: “The only chance, to calm down my feeling of isolation, was, to inhale all traditions and social classes”.

People today could call this Obama´s way of integrating himself.

Being so open to all those influences he had met or he was confronted to, reminded me of what Yang Liu had pointed out to me: When I met someone……………………….

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People are different

By: Ulrich Sollmann
05-05-2012
intercultural

People are different

Yesterday I visited Yang Liu in Berlin. She told me an astonishing story about her little book “East meets West”. The book is announced to be part of intercultural communication. It is presented as an attempt for better understanding the two fields of culture: East and West, China and Germany.

Of course, if you remember the foto, which I posted some days ago, the book helps to support better understanding.

BUT Yang Liu wrote this little book as a diary. She told me…………………………..

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some…….

By: Ulrich Sollmann
03-05-2012
intercultural, nonverbal communication

Some……

were interested to get more information about Yang Liu. Here is the link to her website. Please have a look. It´s really worth looking. You wil see how important it is to communicate interculturally in a very simle way between East and West.  So that everybody, even if one doesn`t speak the language will at once know.

So get convinced by yourself. 😉

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Meeting Yang Liu….

By: Ulrich Sollmann
03-05-2012
Body language, intercultural

Meeting Yang Liu…

tomorrow I will meet Yang Liu in Berlin to talk about eas-west-communication. I will let you know what we talk about.

If you have any question and you are interested in an answer, please let me know in advance. 😉 I will forward it to her.

Have a nice day.

 

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