I hope everyone's week was good!

This week we discussed intercultural relationships. I brought up, in class, how my trip in London went and ML helped me with sharing with the class our thoughts and our look on European culture. For those who have not had a chance to be there for more than a week to visit, really do not understand how the British society works. I had visited, but never lived. Living there and knowing the customs is an eye opening experience and I felt at home within a matter of days. Intercultural language is defined as " communication between two people of different cultures," as stated by Richmond, McCroskey, and Hickson in Nonverbal Behavior. We all have our set norms and expect whomever that comes into our country to abide by those norms. I had to switch how I lived to do what is socially accepted in London, France, and Scotland. It was hard, but I feel that to respect one's culture, you must choose to obey and follow their set of social norms.

When people say that their culture or country is better than the next person's... it makes me think of how high their ignorance level is. Obviously, they have only been in their country and have not had the chance to leave and try others cultures out. The world is beautiful and a shame to waste away time that could be spend traveling and learning more.

Let me know your thoughts!!

Bailee

Polychronic

Polychronic is described as one not being on time. This describes me perfectly. I started thinking about why I am always late to everything and did not have any reason others that I was doing something else or I lost track of time. So when I really started to think about it, it because of my mother. My mother is ALWAYS late. I used to have to wait hours after school because she was doing something else or forgot. In the book Nonverbal Behavior on page 186, it says this is a scheduling of activities at one time. I could not agree more. I map out my day according to hours and write it all out in my planner and then never look at my planner again until I want to write something down. Why do we do this?

Bailee

Teacher-Student

The male to male relationship is a hard one to discuss because I feel that many people have different views on what is appropriate. I personally do not want to see anyone touchy feely, much less a man on man relationship. I am religious and therefore I follow God's word and think that intimate relationships are between a man and a women. I have never gone against gay men, but I do not feel that it is right. People have certain norms and I'm not sure about all of you, but I feel that gay men almost try to push the limits and show people just how gay they are. It just does not make sense that two people want everyone to look at them THAT much! So tell me your thoughts on this situation. In no way and I trying to disrespect anybody and would never mean to hurt anyone's feelings, I just want the PDA to be toned down.

Here is a picture about what I am discussing in my blog:

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