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Across culture communication and kinesics

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Describe an intercultural transaction in which you have participated in which one or more parties demonstrated an application of kinesics (nonlinguistic body motions such as blushes, shrugs, or eye movement) different from your cultural norm.

How did you react to the difference? Did the difference prove to be a barrier to communication?

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Recently a friend of mine began managing a local Japanese-Korean express grill restaurant. I began to spend some of my spare time there - chatting with my friend and the other employees, when I wasn't studying. While most of the waiters are a representative sample of the local ethnic distribution, I noticed that the kitchen staff is heavily ...

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