My two classmates commented on the article ‘Communicating and Interpersonal Communicating,’ by John Stewart. In this assignment I am focusing on the identities, Top of the Morning Top of the Morning, http://topofthemorning.wordpress.com/
spoke about the differences of communication in different cultures and his personal experiences. In the United States he described his experience as “very professional, “conservative” and “trying to send a professional message.” In the other country (that is never specifically mentioned) “It is more relaxed,” “I think it has something to do with different perceptions we have about what is acceptable and what is not.”
Cake’s Blog addressed these comments by addressing the cultural difference between Eastern and Western cultures. Identity- Stewart believes that the western world has the same boundary as “the boundary of the individual as the same body, and that the body houses or contains the ’self.” Where in the eastern cultures, the “self is define by what is outside the body) i.e. groups one is part of), and breaking from the norm unacceptable.’
When constructing our identities there are three different perspectives. First, that our identities are stable. Second, that there is a choice or connection with the situation or “self…” Thirdly, that relationships are developed “from past and present relationships.’
