These are very interesting................
If you are an English teacher in Taiwan, you may not have too much experiences about this. But when you are in a multicultual society, it makes big differences.
How we greet each other.
What considered common courtesy of impolite.
How we show respect and disrespect
What is embarrassing
Waht make us feel good
What we eat and how we eat
What we wear
What we buy and how we behave in stores
How often we touch each other and how we teach each other
The holidays we celebrate and the way we celebrate
How we use money, credit and bartering
What is risk
How we seek and use health services and what we consider appropriate health care and personal hygiene
What we find humorous
How we use mass transit
Seating placement in a room
What is beautiful or ugly
What are worthwhile goals in life
The nature of religious beliefs
Whether a person is in control of one’s own life or whether fate determines one’s life
Common sense
Our perceived needs
Whether privacy is desirable or undesirable
The langague we speak
What should be said; what should be left unsaid
What is appropriate ”small talk”
Whom we speak to and whom we should not speak to
Whether communication should be direct or indirect, formal or informal
The meaning of hand guestures, facial expressions and other nonverbal communication
How often we smild, whom we smile at and the meaning of a smile
The role of the individual
The roles of each gender and how each gender should behave
The importance of harmony in a group
The importance of competition
Social class system
Hierarchy in business relationships
Interactions betweens strangers
How to interact with a person in authority or a person who is serving us
Relationships and obligarions between parents, children and other family members
Crowd or audience behavior
How time is scheduled and used
Whether schedules are imprtant or unimportant
The importanc eof meintaining tradition
The importance of preparing for the future
Whether old age is valuable or undesirable
Adapted from Multicultural Customer Service
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