Non-verbal Communication between human beings

The best way for people to understand others point of view or behaviors is communication. It allows us to express feeling, opinions and judgments but not always this communication means the same in all countries or cultures, especially if we are talking about non-verbal communication.

Non-verbal communication is anything that helps us to communicate without using words. Symbols, body language expressions, eyes contacts and touch are all non-verbal communication. These aspects can have different meanings depending on the culture that we are in. Eduard T. Hall studied the levels of context in different countries and found that there are ones with more high context and other with low contexts, regularly, countries with high context are those that need too much explicit information in order to get the message and do not fall into misunderstandings, in the other side, low context countries can have implicit information and will get the idea of what is trying to be informed. In the picture it can be seen cups of coffee that say “ caution hot beverage” it is obvious that the coffee is hot but in high context this information have to be explicit in order to let people know that the  coffee they are about to drink is hot, therefore they might be cautious

In my opinion the human beings use more non-verbal communication than verbal communication, we are always expressing ourselves with our body, any movements, facial expression and attitude can say something. There are some expressions or symbols that can have different meanings and there are others that might have a global meaning like for example “have-five” action. And the O.K expression that means agreement. Another good example of non- verbal communication are kisses when people are greeting each other, kisses mean confidence this a very common way to greet in different countries but for example in Colombia is use only one kiss and men do not kiss other men, in Belgium also men kiss each other and in Spain it is use two kisses one in each cheek.   

      

References

http://www.sheknows.com/food-and-recipes/articles/804657/what-your-starbucks-drink-says-about-you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:High-five.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_communication

http://www.bodylanguage.in/body-language-examples/

http://tecnoculto.com/2011/03/28/aniversario-de-ok/