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I 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
by Iv 7y ago
I 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.