Also, if you behave in ways that people don't understand or don't like, they may judge you negatively, not take you seriously, or even think that you there is something wrong with you.
For example, in some cultures it is wrong to make eye contact but in others it is expected. If you get it wrong people can think that you are insulting them.
Richard Cook mentioned a number of areas where confusion can happen between cultures, eye contact, or touching for example. But there is one very important area and that is proximity.
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※SUMMARY:
We communicate with people through non-verbal way most of the time; therefore, it becomes more important to know how to act properly, so that others may not think we are being rude or even ignore us. Eye contact and touching are the most commonly being confused.
※Reaction:
People often suffers from being afraid of doing the wrong thing in foreign countries, they are so worried about if they act strangely, people might be offended; however, according to most of the natives, they don't really expect a foreigner to do exactly the right thing.
For example, we have the myth that Japanese bow to each other to show their politeness, but they have already use hand-shaking for decades, so it is all right to shake their hands as we do in most of the other countries.
Still, it's best for us to know the common rules before going to those countries which are not familiar to us. As the saying goes,"When in Rome, act as the Romans do" it isn't so difficult to act in the right ways as long as you understand other cultures.
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