Tag: Talking

• Pitfalls in Communication: Clouding the Truth

  Part 3 of a 6 part series. View series intro and index. It’s hard enough to communicate with people who have different worldviews and come from a different culture—whether they are from across the street or another continent. Communication gets harder when it travels over gender lines. Add to this fact that we usually arrive with personal […]

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  May 6, 2009

  Life

• Pitfalls in Communication: Differing Interpretive Filters

  Part 2 of a 6 part series. View series intro and index. Cultural (Environmental) Filters Everyone has their own culture.  Culture is a shared system of values, beliefs, attitudes, and norms.  Culture is not simply an ethnicity thing.  It’s not just “Irish” culture and “Indian” culture and “South African” culture. I grew up in Omaha.  People from […]

  April 28, 2009

  Life