Body-language and 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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On Chinese body thinking…

This book uses Western philosophical tradition to make a case for a form of thinking properly associated with ancient China. The book’s thesis is that Chinese thinking is concrete rather than formal and abstract, and this is gathered in a variety of ways under the symbol “body thinking.” The root of…

Link to the Book: 

On Chinese Body Thinking: A Cultural Hermeneutic

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people understand…….

most of the things wrong but feel most of the things right

Kurt Tocholsky

(a German writer and jounalist)

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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……

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…

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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Yang Liu Design, www.yangliudesign.com

Auszug aus “Ost trifft West” von Yang Liu
Hermann Schmidt Verlag Mainz, 2011, 8. Auflage
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Yang Liu´s design blog

if you want to read more from Yang Liu or about her here is the link to her design blog. It is written in German, unfortunately. Nevertheless her posters convince without words.

Whenever I meet someone who saw her posters, smiles because now he knows what it´s all about. 😉

http://yangliudesign.blogspot.de/

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East and West: so simple….?

Yang Liu was born in China but moved to Germany to be educated. Having grown up in two very different places with very different traditions, Yang Liu was able to experience first-hand what the underlying differences were between the two cultures.

With a people’s perspective on it it all, Yang Liu has created these posters and images using simple symbols and shapes to convey just how different the two cultures are.

http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/01/18/east-vs-west-cultural-differences-by-yang-liu/

The blue side is Germany and the red side is China.

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mysterious look in the face

Often we in Germany think that it is very difficult to see any facial expression in a Chinese face. All faces seem to look the same. Therefore we don´t have a good emotional orientation how to address this person, how to communicate and what to expect from this person. But to have such an emotional orientation is useful and of course necessary for contact and communicating. And for understanding each other.

On the other hand we in Germany often think……………………

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