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Some of what you are talking about is really more about politeness than high and low context cultures. There is certainly a connection but high context has more
by jccalhoun 7y ago
Some of what you are talking about is really more about politeness than high and low context cultures. There is certainly a connection but high context has more emphasis on the sort of "it isn't what you say but how you say it" kind of meaning. High and low context are just extremes and most cultures are somewhere in between. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_cultures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context...
- Iv 7y agoI am really suspicious that this English speaker found out other English-speaking and Germanic countries to be low-context. I suspect there is a strong bias in what you assume to be the baseline among humans and that you will integrate a huge chunk of your own culture into it. I am curious of his methodology when it comes to sort cultures like that.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoTo be fair, the article identifies Ireland and the American South to be high context regions. But yeah, there's a pretty strong overlap between "high context" and "Germanic speaking" in that article. (Ireland is of course Celtic, but America and Australia aren't really "Germanic" in a non-linguistic sense.)
- wil421 7y agoWas English high or low around the 1700s/early 1800s? A lot of Southern mannerisms and formalities are based on English traditions around the time of the colonies. Especially the rural south.