2011年mini-lecture(7/7)

So what this is all about is that Hall stresses that people need to be aware of these different assumptions or concepts about reality. And he thinks that this has all kinds of relevance no matter what you're doing, if you're in business, negotiations, interpersonal relations. If you're dealing with people from different cultures in any way, it's going to affect every part of your life. In any multicultural situation, these assumptions need to be taken into account for successful interactions. OK. Today, we've taken a brief look at Edward Hall's view of culture, mainly his classification of high or low context culture with some examples. Next week, we'll look at some more examples of cultures on the continuum between high-context and low-context cultures.