Communication and Direct Eye Contact

Where Do We Stand? O Lisa Davis Lisa Davis in this article focuses on cross-cultural difference in the use of personal space and on troths and misunderstanding that a good deal arises from these differences. She maintains that with enough training and preaching. People can win non-verbal habitat of other culture and minimize intercultural problems. She says the main cause of non-verbal conflict is the tendency for sight to interrelate the non-verbal pattern of other culture in terms of the pattern within their own culture.These ethnocentric viewings of reality often result in misinterpretation negative value judgment and picture of discomfort. 1) American use more direct eye impinging than do Japanese (Para 6) 2) second American converse at a wardrobe distant and establish more direct eye polish off than do another European. (Para 7) 3) Men tend to converse at a greater distance than do women. (Para 8&9) 4) Women established more eyes contact than do men. (Para 9) ) Russians be a higher contact, a people whereas establishes are a non-contact group. (para10) 6) Caucasians should view a student dodging of eye contact as sign of deception whereas Asian teachers see such avoidance as sign of foreign. (Para 11) 7) An American who is used to standing on the receding of elevator and avoiding eyes contact with other people will find oneself that something is wearing if someone stand by a few inches a charge. (Para 17) 8) South Arabian men often hold hand while manner of walking but American men dont. t is important to take up the foreign countrys ways when people go to foreign country because there are huge differences between own country and foreign country. Especially, the way of communication makes peopleconfuse. According to Where Do We Stand by Lisa Davis, people have different way of non-verbal communication, which depends on their cultural back landed estate and gender. As a result, people sometimes feel uncomfortable when they pass by with oth er people. In Japan, there are some different communications styles, which makeforeignerconfuse.