Language Deficits

Part 1:

            I found this assignment completely difficult. Maybe it was because I have no patience, but only being able to speak with your eyes and facials is so unrealistic within communicating. I found this to be quite a tricky assignment; I am a very verbal/talkative person.            My partner had a harder time than I did in this assignment. I thought I was bad but we just couldn’t get on the same understanding level in this situation. After when we talked about what we were trying to communicate, it had nothing to do with what actually was needed to be conversed.            I feel in the situation of this “no symbolic communication”, hypothetically if it represented two different cultures, it would be very confusing. It reminds me directly of how Americans met Native Americans back in the day, making understanding between the two foreign cultures difficult. I think the symbolic language has the upper hand because language doesn’t help someone that cannot understand, facials would do better work in that case. Frustration would arise from the speaking culture because it would not do them any good, talking to someone that completely cannot comprehend what’s going on. In this case, non-verbal has a lot of power to these two diverse cultures. In our culture directly, we are a diverse state of California with many Hispanics that do not speak fluent English, if at all. That could be a big discrepancy in our system, how Americans and Hispanics cannot fully communicate to their best ability. We use multi-cultural workers in our society to our advantage at different work places. Someone who can speak both Spanish and English is a very valued gift to California worker places.

Part 2:

            I do not feel as if this type of communication was that harsh. Yes it was difficult at times but nothing like the first assignment. I use my hands a lot so multiple times I just had to sit on my hands and not wiggle my body. But using words came easier for me.            My partner as I had a decent time with this particular assignment. I don’t know but after the first part of the assignment this one came to us much easier.            I find non-speech techniques to be extremely important in society and how we communicate today. I can say it makes things easier to use those facials and point when talking specifically about something, but if two people speak the same language, you might as well us it to your fullest capabilities.            There are always those people who find difficulty in reading body language. I would say obviously this would not help blind people in any way at all, which would be completely impossible. I feel like being a people person would help someone comprehend reading body language well, it would benefit the socialable person greatly, people that come into contact with people often. Environment situations where this would not benefit the persons, this is quite a hard question. Honestly I cannot put the situation into perspective enough to find a valid example, which doesn’t give an answer. But nothing reasonable is coming to mind! Because most places using language is the easier option and using gestures is easier to go without. Maybe on a sporting field while playing a game, that could be nearly impossible not to move, use gestures or point.