RE: Assistance needed on English class assignment
1. What is your gender? Male
2. (Optional) Your age and what do you do by occupation? 15,study
3. Where are you from (country and where in the country) ? North Mexico
4. What is/are your native language(s)? spanish, english
5. When you are talking, how far away do you usually stand (or sit) from people? Please give your answers for
1. family members 1 meter
2. intimate friends 1 meter
3. normal acquaintances 2 meters
4. strangers 2 meters
respectively.
6. When you are talking, do you (consciously) touch the people you are talking to? If yes, how frequently? Please give your answers for
1. family members infrequently
2. intimate friends infrequently
3. normal acquaintances infrequently
4. strangers infrequently
respectively.
7. Continued: If people touch more frequently (than the answer you gave in the last question), how do you feel?
Weird
8. In your culture, do people usually look at others when in an elevator? Sometimes
9. In your culture, do people try hard not to touch others when in an moderately-to-much-crowded elevator? not really, but yes
10. Do you look people in the eyes when you are talking to them?
Note your answer may vary depending on whom you are talking to; please give your answer as detailedly as possible.
Yes , to everyone
11. In your culture, do people maintain frequent (yet not excessive) eye contact when talking to others?
yes
12. In your culture, what do people do non-verbally, when they first meet someone new? (for example, exchanging handshakes, bowing, ...etc) Handshake, if opposite sex, kiss in cheek
13. Give your ideas about the special meanings (if any) of the following hand/body gestures and facial expressions in your culture:
1. The OK sign: forefinger and the tumb joining a circle
everything ok
2. Crossing your fingers
good luck
3. Shurgging your shoulders
i dont know (< thats the meaning)
4. Winking
something good gonna happen or you will like it, or a secret, or a believe me thing
*All posts are a purely speculative hypothesis based on abstract reasoning.
Not my daughter, you bitch!
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