I believe that the difference between male and female communicating is quite similar between people from different cultures due to the communication in any language involves intonation, volume, emphasis, and non-verbal signals such as, gestures, eye contact, touch, posture, and not just words. All these features may lead to misunderstanding, over reaction, insult. Let’s see some examples; Western countries speakers tend make use of eye contact to show sincerity while in Asia this approach is a sign of aggression, disrespect. Those from cultures that have the propensity to touch by acting in a natural way may cause indignation. Some cultures go move quickly to the point; others talk long enough to establish a relationship with the other person.
All these dissimilarities do not mean that people from culture different cannot get married. Learning from exchanges cultures and moving slowly instead of jumping to the conclusion in base what one think or feel are some tools that people use in order to establish a good marriage.
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Hi Fati,
I completely agree with you. even for both of us that speak spanish, there could be a lot of misunderstandings because we use different vocabularies, differet ways of speaking, etc. But we get to learn how communicate properly.
Communication between any two people takes effort and thought. Some gender generalities can be made but everyone is different, and every conversation is unique. But we still manage in this great big multicultural, multilingual world!
marley
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