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| August 24, 2003 |
Non-Verbal Communication – Koji Nishida |
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| Non-verbal communication with Professor Koji Nishida |
Using silence to demonstrate how people from different cultures overcome their language and communication challenges, Professor Koji Nishida of Chiba University held a workshop where simple card games had to be explained using gestures only.
First, four different teams of players received written rules of four different games. The winners of the following games then moved to another game where the rules were slightly different. Not knowing the rules changed from table to table caused several silent arguments as to which was the right way to play, with some players attempting to enforce the rules from their previous games, while others played along silently without understanding, or watched their new group attempt to explain the different rules.
Professor Nishida hoped that the exercise demonstrated different approaches to how we adapt to alien cultures. Ethnocentric players tend to take their rules to a new game, while those open to fitting into other social norms and assimilating follow the directions of the group. Through his series of lectures and workshops on non-verbal communication, Professor Nishida raised awareness of how we interact when encountering new cultures. |
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