It`s a wonderful day and I can`t see it
we have the choice to experience the nonverbal world or not. But not all of us can do this.
Just have a look
http://joe-perez.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Blind-Man.png
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=4581180260661
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Bang Dakuan, or: women who capture rich men
There is a big problem between western countries and China. China copies various products which are protected by law. So western companies fight for their copyright in China. But mostly are not successful.
Up to now this could be identified as a typical intercultural conflict: whereas copyright has become an enormous social, economical and juridical value, copying mirrors a traditional value which is typical for the Chinese culture.
How to solve this ambivalence? How to find a way out of this dilemma? Neither the one nor the other perspective on it´s own is intercultural acceptable.
Well meanwhile reality, the development of facts to which society and life gets accustomed ……………..
Read MoreA matter of opinion
Psychologists of Bristol University have found out, that there is big and radical gender difference in perception and awareness. (http://www.plosone.org/home.action )
On the one hand women are better aware of little differences than men. On the other hand if watching a person on a photo, men mostly look at the person`s face whereas women also look at the body as a whole.
This of course leads to the impression of big differences in life experience. Both live in the same world, but see different things or aspects of this world.
And of course behave in a different way, present themselves in a different habit.
This difference is quite a stable element of nonverbal communication. So to say a fact which cannot be neglected in it´s important influence on communication. Of course this fact also is a chance to enrich gender communication. By being aware of this fact and integrating the consequences in one´s own behavior. Or by being aware of this and addressing the other in order to reflect both perspectives as two parts of the same coin.
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Not the person but the mask is dangerous……..
“Wearing V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes Masks Declared Illegal,
police officials in Dubai have warned against wearing a mask that symbolizes opposition to state authority”
Thanks to Gio McCluskey on fb
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The price is not the value, or: experience of social coldness
Unfortunately is this article only in German: China in the future will be more and more confronted with the experience of economic decline or social coldness. Here is one example of what can happen
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/china-christen-muessen-ihre-treffen-geheim-organisieren-a-865342.html
and in English:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/187917.html
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Sex and moral
Relating to my post on Petraeus and the issue of sex and politics in the US, I want to put it in another way: to have this love affair, Petraeus as well as others who did the same (men or women), proof the fact that moral categories never can win against love and sex in this way.
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant was convinced that being rational, man can suppress love and sex by his rational conviction. Here ………………
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It also can be quite funny!!!!!!!
After a raft of critical acclaim for Thuy’s original French version, including a 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award, Ru has now been published in English, translated by the celebrated Sheila Fischman.
In short vignettes that flow back and forth between past and present, Ru tells the story of a young woman forced to leave ……………….
Strange is strange is not strange…..it`s me!
In German we have at least five different aspects of “strange”. Or so to say five different ways of understanding “strange”:
1. a stranger looks strange or behaves strange, in the way that I perhaps never have seen before.
2. not to be familiar with something or someone.
3. stranger in the sense of foreigner, coming i.e. from another country or culture
4. strange can also mean “to be different to oneself”
Read MoreWhat is strange, who is strange and why, people think, somebody is strange?
I will tell you a little story about a man who as a child, born in Romania, came to Germany at the age of four. In Romania he was brought up in a very old German speaking and German rooted community. So he was used to the German language and the German culture. In those days this German rooted community was addressed as a strange community in Romania, a community of stranger, though they had the Romanian nationality. To bring it to the point: They were Romanians and not Romanians. They were Germans and they were not Germans.
The German government in those days was interested in the reintegration of such German speaking and rooted communities here in Germany. As I was told, German government paid some thousand German Marks for a grown-up person and ……….
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