(Inter)cultural Communication & Nonverbal Communication (general concept)
Each cultures have their own version of non-verbal communication, though facial expression, gestures, eye contact and body language. Growing up in Southeast Asia, we tend to communicate non-verbally like for example we gesture with our lips/chin to point at something, this is briefly explained by a English content content creator that lives in Malaysia known as Ryan Howlett on Tiktok (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYWePhq/). In class, there was the question of Adaptation vs Authenticity dilemma, whether the primary responsibility to adapt to a new culture lies with the guest/foreigner rather than the host. My answer was at a 3 on a scale of 5 where 1 is the host's responsibility and 5 is the guest's responsibility. The reason my answer was at a 3 is because just because a person paid to visit another country does not mean that they have the right to do as they please in a foreign country, however, it also does not mean that the host should expect foreigner to be able to follow all t...