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• After I read the article, I find it surprised even though I knew that hand gestures from different country have
sometimes the good and the bad meaning to it. I was surprised to some hand gestures because they look like it's a
positive hand gesture in America. For example, I see the one where the article talks about the "Crossed Arms", in
Thailand or Burma where I came from, we don't consider as what the article says, "Getting ready to fight". We
consider as listening to the ones who's speaking or showing respect to adults or teachers when talking. There are
some negative gestures I found like "Thumb-up" in America we just considered as a good thing, and I never had
thought about the in a way the article has mentioned. One of the gestures I already know is the "feet gestures", in
some Asian countries they are consider rude and unpolite. The most challenging one I can see for business
professional gestures are the head shake, crossed arm, come here, and slapping your fist. Those are the ones I can
think of from the article. These gestures seem normal in America, but when you're prosing your business to another
country, you must learn to control and research this information so it could you and help them.
• In additional to hand gestures, I think that personal space is important in different variety of culture an example
would be getting too close, but in other country such as Serbia and Poland they like to greet each other kissing each
other cheeks to feel welcome whereas, in America we shake hands to greet each other. Not knowing this gesture can
be offensive and weird for one another.
• Critical thinking skills are important to help us communicate well cross cultural. It helps us collect information by
thinking it through and even before discussing what's right and wrong, critical thinking skill help us think further
before speaking about it.
