CULTURAL CHALLENGE

Geffin Wartuny 211807743 If we talk about cultural challenge there are so many aspects that we can find as many as possible. But in this context I will try to explain and thinking of another context about this one, especially about living of environmental among one culture with the others. As we know if we talk about culture there are so many differences within culture itself, because culture itself come from any country and tribes, so that is why I feel interesting when talk about this topic. "Both consciously and unconsciously, people expect that their interactions will follow appropriate and culturally determined rules, that inform both parties about the proper communicative behavior for specific circumstances. Communication rules act as guidelines for both one's own actions and others' actions. As Wood points out, these rules "are shared understandings of what communication means and what kinds of communication are appropriate in particular situations. Communication rules govern both verbal and nonverbal behaviors and specify not only what should be said but also how it should be said. Nonverbal rules, as we saw in Chapter 9, apply to paralanguage, touch, facial expressions, eye contact, and other nonverbal behaviors. "(Smovar 2015: 339). Based on the quotes from the book that I already mentioned above we can conclude that, even though in living of environmental communication in context is very important to set us to be good person in communication. Why? Like I said before every people have their own characteristic that reflecting their culture. So, we have to be clever to interact with people in our environment because environment talk about daily life activity. Based on my own experience in my environment at the time I have neighbor which is one family who come from java and it was the first time their wandered to outside city, definitely they will have culture shock because Papuan people and Javanese people is very different and seems like opposite one with other. When interact with my family in daily life, they feel so weird because they heard my family when talking is very loud. That is why if they want to talk with us, they will try to carefully but actually my family is not suitable with what they think. But as time as goes by they can adapt fastly and mingle with us but not only for my family but for all neighbor in my environment. According to my experience my family can learn that in communication we have to look for the context at the time, because if we just do the communication it will be not really good when our partner in communication have different personality. "Your personal experiences should validate that position. Consider how such diverse contexts as a classroom, bank, church, hospital, courtroom, wedding, funeral, or sporting event determine which communication rules you follow." (Smovar 2015: 341). This statement strengthen my opinion about communication in context because it very relate with my experience and also teach me to use communication properly in every situation and condition.