Each culture socializes its members with appropriate rules for personal space, touch, paralanguage, eye contact, etc.
For this assignment, address instances when you have made judgments about culturally-different others because they exhibited different non-verbal behaviors than you had been taught? What were the evaluations you made? (Address at least two of the following: physical appearance, gestures, haptics, boundaries and time.)
How could you have been less judgmental and more tentative in interpreting others’ unfamiliar nonverbal signals?
Follow up with 3 suggestions for how we can better manage these obstacles.