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=**Cross-Cultural Communication**=

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 * Nonverbal communication** is extremely important in any interaction with others. This is because people tend to look for nonverbal cues when verbal messages are unclear. Posture, eye contact, and body ​gestures are the main sorces for understanding. They are more likely to be used across cultures wheere there are different languales being spoken. Gestures and nonverbal behavior arises from our cultural common sense. Body language. Our ideas about what is appropriate, normal, and effective differentiate between countries across the world. This webosite is based on the pros and cons of cross-cultural communication. It not only helps people understand each other when there are language barriers, but can also cause conflict. While we may have a repertoire of gestures all our own with a few borrowed from favorite movie stars, there are quite a few that are universally understood; or at least by members of a given speech community. These are culture-specific and referred to as emblems. Gestures are often handed down through generations and have become an important part of each individual country. Cultures that are widely publicized due to television and other multi-media have their gestures adopted universally and integrated into various other cultures and lifestyles (such as the United States).

Pros: Without speaking, people can communicate their feelings and thoughts where there is a language barrier. Cons: In today's day, some gestures are only known to a specific country where the same gesture in another country can be viewed as insulting and disrespectful.
 * Pros and Cons of communicating with gestures:**

There is a common prayer gesture among Christians which is called praying hands or the hands clasped or folded together before the heart. Such a prayer gesture is a symbol of obedience, submission, sincerity and repentance. There are others who raise their prayer hands as if pleading to God. Natahn Ausubel, in his book "Book of Jewish Knowledge said that this prayer gesture is not exclusive to Christians alone. He said the Jews even...[]
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This is a graph including all of the countries over cross cultural communication has changed over the years. It graphs the percentage of people participating in using gestures to communicate.

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