This experiment was a difficult one to go through. I 'am more of a talkative person. To go through this experiment was pretty difficult, having to go from not talking to signaling each other trying to understanding what our needs and mostly our communication. As a human being growing up as a child speaking comes first before typing words and writing. My partners impression on this assignment was, he found his ways and paths to communicate back to me. He also found it hard for me to realize what we were trying to communicate with each other. He did have to change his way of communication by using different colors around him and using anything item around to show what he was thinking. My partner thinks he would be the one with the complex ideas if meeting for the first time from different cultures. If I was to be speaking culture and my partner was a symbolic culture I would be very frustrated and maybe a little mad. I would wish I was able to understand his symbolic language. Humans who speak and for those who don't speak are both effected by not being able to fully understand what we are both trying to say. We may not know what the other person is saying and he can really try hard to communicate but still not understand that eventually either one or both person get frustrated and give up.
The second part of the assignment was a little easier but was still difficult as well. We could not fully do the assignment with just speech communication. The difficult part about this assignment was not being able to use hand gesture and try not to use any head movements. This form of communication affected himself by not being able to get any form of attitude of expression given. Being able to understand body language can be very beneficial by being able to approach someone. By being able to know by the way someone shows there emotions through there body. The time when you can benefit from not being able to read body language would be when you are blind. Being blind its quite difficult to understand and visualize body language but can more clearly understand through the way people speak.
Good description of your part 1 experiment. I agree that both sides would likely feel frustration in their attempts to communicate. From a selective view point, it is easy to see how the speaking culture would have the advantage with communication within their own culture. They would be able to communicate complex ideas more easily and rapidly, compared with the non-speaking culture.
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"By being able to know by the way someone shows there emotions through there body."
Agreed, but why is this important? What information does this give you? Why is it s a problem if you don't get this information? Humans use body language to validate what they are hearing. Is that person telling the truth? What does their body language tell me? Without that confirmation, we don't know if we can trust what we are hearing, like a missing lie detector. That makes us uncomfortable.
People who are blind still need to read body language, it is just more difficult for them to do so, though they can read intonation and body position. This actually describes another point in the guidelines regarding "who has difficulty reading body language". For the final point, are there any circumstances where body language might mislead you? Can it be misinterpreted? Do all cultures use the same system of body language?
The second part of the assignment was very different for me, you say it was a little easier for you, but I found it extremely difficult. I use way too many facial expressions and I always had to "control" myself to not let any expressions ruin my experiment haha. I also think body language is very important, it's so beneficial to understand it, specially if you need something from someone, if the person looks annoyed, maybe it's not the right time to try to communicate. :p
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