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Young teens in Japan start to refuse the kimono, and they dress more fashionable. This is to appreciated by the Japanese culture which used to have the shame culture, which is a code that shows what is good or not to do in public. Cultural barrier and age barrier is what this imagine shows. Because the teenager is dressing in a different way of what the Japanese culture is. 2. What type of nonverbal communication codes are being used to deliver the messages? The nonverbal communications showed in this imagine is the way this girl is dressed and the makeup she is having in her face.
The communication codes used in this imagine are affect display and emblems; the facial expression, posture, and hat the girl is doing, are all nonverbal communication. The girl is talking with a friend similar to her but she is completed busy watching her phone, and this Justify the affect display on communication code. Also appearance is showed in this imagine as nonverbal communication code because the girl is dressed to show as well his personality, culture and beliefs. 3. What effect does each message have on the other people in the image?
The message that the two girls are sending to the other people is their way to integrate they personality in the society. They like be different and go opposite of what the other people does. They like to copy the western countries and they tend to be extremely different of what the Japanese people is used to do. This nonverbal way to communicate gives the impression of rebellion toward the Japanese culture and traditions. 4. What nonverbal communication skills and strategies could be used to communicate effectively in this situation?
I think the girls are using the strategy of Nonverbal Communication Skills By Elvin-Tore Achilles their ideas to people. They don’t need to talk to show what they want to show, and he choose the strategy of using nonverbal communication to pass from person to person the message that are trying to give, expand and share from person to person. 1. What nonverbal messages are being sent in this image? In Tokyo in same areas is not allowed to smoke in public because the action of smoking is bad for the community. People have spaces designated for smokers.
The nonverbal communication of smoking shows bad influence for the community. The main action of nonverbal communication of this imagines is smoking and smokes segregate from the nonsmokers. Assuages? The body movement and posture done while smoking delivers the nonverbal communication of people smoking. If people will not see these actions it makes the Japanese culture looks better and protects the nonsmokers. Gestures done with the arms and hand are also showed in this picture as a nonverbal communication of a smoker. 3.
What effect does each message have on the other people in the image? The nonverbal communication of people smoking gives a bad influence and a bad imagine to the society. When a smoker see another smoker smoke, this person will make as well, because the action of smoking make the people want to smoke. By isolating the smokers in segregate areas, will reduce the nonverbal communication message that smokers give to the other people. Communicate effectively in this situation? Well I think is enough not to see people smoking to reduce the willing to smoke to people.
I was a smoker and every time I was seeing someone smoking I was thinking about cigarettes all the time. If I was in an environment of no smokers, then I was not willing to light a cigarette. Isolating the smokers was the strategy to avoid sending nonverbal communication in public. Japanese culture thinks that smoking in public is a bad habit and is not a good manner. The cultural barrier showed in the clip is not accepting the new generation way of communication which nowadays is the mobile phone, text messages and mass media.