My cyber community

My cyber community

The way I decided to select whom I will allow in my network is by classmates, friends and family. My criteria is based on sharing this experience with my classmates first and extending it to my circle of friends and family second. In every act of communication humans apply knowingly/unknowingly filters and judgments to people who contact them, culture differences is one of those filters “Whether we are aware of it (differences) or not, culture influences communication” Essentials of communication ,27.

I am guilty of judging others based upon the way they communicate with me. My position in the States came as a person from another culture. Most of the time I communicate with people that do not share my culture, my language, or my ethnicity, so I am aware of those differences at the time of communication. I take this experience as an opportunity to interact, meet and enrich my life with other cultures. Since I came to this country, I take every occasion that I found to learn from other groups and understand the way they see and perceive life. I sometimes hesitate when interacting with persons that I am not familiar because I am afraid I could misunderstand them or even insult them because of ignorance about their traditions. I try to have an open mind and judge people by the way they communicate with me and always be aware that we are different and in the differences we create the individuality that make all of us unique. Here I would like to mention the note from our textbook where it says that in Japanese the same word means different and wrong. I do not see how something different could be wrong, maybe out of the ordinary, but that does not mean it is wrong.