taiwan
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- 2020-11-02
- [[India]] [[Taiwan]] are high-context. High context people gain more information from gestures, body language, and culture specific connotations of words
- **interesting idea: ** high context cultures are more focused on culture/community, as opposed to the individual, so there is a higher level of understanding of background from person to person. In that environment, they are able to gain much more info through less direct, more subtle means, because they share much more background and context
- This is why collectivism/socialism was popular in France/Italy, mostly Catholic countries. The people in those countries shared so much background and context they were much more willing to emphasize the group instead of the individual.
- **interesting idea: ** high context cultures are more focused on culture/community, as opposed to the individual, so there is a higher level of understanding of background from person to person. In that environment, they are able to gain much more info through less direct, more subtle means, because they share much more background and context
- [[India]] [[Taiwan]] are high-context. High context people gain more information from gestures, body language, and culture specific connotations of words
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