Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a German I am a little bit confused about the statements and assumptions being made here.

  No, Americans don’t communicate clearly, direct and context-free.
  Quite the opposite in my experience.

  But also: No, Germany isn’t low context, despite very direct communication and being on the low-context-side of the graph shown.
  Depending on region, there are a lot of implicit rules end customs you just have to know about.

  Imho it’s more complicated and not as black-and white as this theory wants to paint it.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So… the theory itself is low context?

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The US has more than one culture, at least in terms of communication style. California is fairly low-context, and big cities in general tend to favor lower contexts, but more rural areas and smaller cities in the Midwest and South tend to have higher-context communication. I can’t compare it to Paris or Tokyo, of course.

  It’s certainly been a problem for me, as a Midwesternern, when coastal colleagues and acquaintances don’t know what the hell I’m saying because they don’t bother to think about why I’m saying it, and where I think they’re shockingly rude by saying things bluntly like I’m an idiot child who can’t form any sort of theory of mind.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The NYC area is very low context and high volume. A lot of the rest of the Northeast is the same way.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll agree with this. There are Midwestern “politeness” rules that defy communication.

    For example, if you’re visiting a Midwesterner, they will offer you something, but it’s rude to take them up on it unless they insist 3 times. The exception to the rule being “I’m grabbing a ___, you want one?”

    This doesn’t really defy the video though, as the Midwest is more homogenous than the coastal US.

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    • andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Never heard of the concept of the have to offer three times. I’ve lived in Minnesota my entire life. I’ve never heard of this.

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Almost any country has many different cultures to it

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• Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It seems to be a real anthropology concept, and it kinda makes sense for my experience as french, i guess you could be in a relationship without saying “we are bf/gf”, though it seems odd to not talk about your feelings if the relationship goes on for multiple dates. I don’t know what i think about this concept, partly because one justification is “countries with a very diverse population are more low context” and france is a mix of a lot of cultures, but i guess it’s true in some ways.

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• FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have heard that the USA is the lowest context culture in the world. Even as a british person, the way americans talk seems so vague.

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