blog assignment3

E110 119 blog assignment 3rd

I was surprised. When I came to here at first, I felt considerable differences between Korean and American as for gestures. Korean actually do not use lots of gestures while they are communicating with other people. They usually think that it is too distracting to use a lot of gestures. On the other hand, American use gestures positively when they have conversation with someone. Their expression looks exaggerated from time to time to Korean. I think these differences which I felt result from characteristics of Korean. Most of Korean rarely show their feelings or thoughts and they show a marked trend toward hiding their feelings. For this reason, Korean I think do not often use gestures or expressions while American use gesture more positively.

All is not, however, different. We spent much time having a dinner or lunch with them after I came here and made friends who are American. Whenever I talk to them, they stare at my eyes as their presentation of concentration. Not only that, we express gladness whenever we meet or say good bye, we hug each other. By doing this, we present gladness or friendly feelings. These are the same cases with Korean. In my opinion, these kinds of basic presentations seem to be very similar.