Culture, Gender and Nonverbal Communicatoin.

Gestures. As i've indicated before, gestures could be expressed through many different ways. yet, we still have to be aware of the signs or actions we point out because in certain cultures, it may be insulting, or it also could be an obscene gesture. 

Facial Expression and Eye Movement. Communication seem to affect the greatness and different varieties of cultures. 

Colours. They vary greatly in their meanings from one culture to another.

Touch. Member of contact cultures maintain longer and more focused eye contact. Members of noncontact cultures maintain greater distance in their interactions, touch each other rarely if at all avoid facing each other directly, and maintain much less direct eye contact. 

Paralanguage and Silence. Conversing at a fast rate, to certain cultures, may seem as an insult, but not to other cultures. Similarly, not all cultures view silence as a good thing. For example, at a business meeting, being quiet all the time may be interpreted in a way that your boss might think you are not interested in what is being discussed, or not paying sufficient attention to the meeting.

Time. Culture influences time communication in a variety of ways. Here we look at three formal and informal time, monochronism and polychronism and social clock. 

-Formal and Informal time. Formal time units are aribitrary. The Culture establish them from convenience. 

-Informal Time denote approximate intervals. expressoins create most communication problems, because the terms have different meaning for different people. 

-Monochronism and Polychronisms. Monochronic people schedule one thing at a time. These cultures compartmentalize time and set sequential times for different activities. Poychronic people schedule multiple things at the same time.  No culture is entirely monochronic or the other. 

-The Social Clock. Your own culture maintain a  schedule that dictates the right times to do a variety of important things. You evaluate your own social and professional development. Over the years, research has shown that social clock have become more flexible and people nowadays are more willing to tolerate deviations from established socially acceptable timetable for accomplishing many of life's events. 

Mahira.