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Body language is not a spoken language but it is an act or behavior that humans perform to express their internal feelings and emotions more clearly to others. This language includes some physical movements or gestures such as facial expressions, or expressions of head, eyes, hands or feet even. It also includes the tone of sound, such as raising or lowering it during conversation. in spite of the fact that many people neglect this language and concentrate on the speech itself and what its meanings or expressions, still body language is an impulsive, innate language that happens unintentionally, so it carries a great deal of information about the person Scientific studies show that body language transfers between 50-80% of information. One …show more content…

Just As we differ in the languages we speak, we also differ in our body language too. The movements and gestures we send in a culture for any purpose may not have the same meaning in another culture. For example, cheek kissing between men is acceptable in Middle East in general: Arab world, Turkey as well as in Russia, but it is unacceptable and disapproval in many countries in Europe and America, In spite the fact that shaking hands is widely spread in many cultures as a kind of greeting, we find that the Japanese people and japan one of countries where is people are not accustomed to shake hands and kiss, where such physical contact is considered to be immoral conduct! To greet the other, people greet each other by bowing only! A bow can range from a small nod of the head to a deep bend at the …show more content…

However, when one of the Japanese attendants was talking to one of the American, the two of them were moving around the room. The American is moving backwards away from the Japanese and the Japanese is gradually moving towards the American!! Simply it was an attempt by both the American and the Japanese to adjust their own comfortable cultural distance between each one of them The Japanese with his 25-cm intimate space zone was constantly moving forward to adjust his need for this contact close zone. But by doing so he was invading the intimate American zone or sphere if is right to say, making him step back to keep his own range. That is why no wonder anymore to know when trade negotiations are held for example, Europeans and Americans refer to Asians as "audacious " if it is right to say and "overstepping the limits of decency and formalism" !!, while the Asians refer to them as "cold , incommunicative and "apathetic "

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