Kommentare zu: Nonverbale Kommunikation – nonverbal communication

Von: Caroline Schneider

Caroline Schneider — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:10:43 +0000

Thanks Mike for sharing your rather generous views on ‘the’ German soul. And yes, I experienced that southern Italians are a lot more flexible in their ways to help others and sometimes very intensive helpers, indeed. Whereas in Germany privacy is ‘holy’ so that we resist helping when we think we might intrude the others privacy not by noticing them but by offering help (which is in some cases taking their decisions). Of course, this is all generalisations – and everyone (be he or she Italian or German or from a completely different nation) acts according to his very own values.

Von: Mike Wagner

Mike Wagner — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:57:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing your observations on non-verbal communications.

Your statement about “someone who dares to act according to the needs of others” has me asking, “why does it take courage to act on what we see?”

Is it because we are uncertain of what we see?

Does it feel like an invasion of privacy to make note of what we see?

What is it?

When I was in Germany a few years ago one of the business leaders I worked with described Germany as a “service desert” to which I asked “why”.

He felt it was because of an attitude towards “making mistakes”. The unspoken rule was, “never be wrong”.

I’m certain that is not fair to Germans! I think many people resist acting on what they think they see for the fear of being wrong or some other imagined social error.

Good to read your blog for the first time.

Keep creating,
Mike

Von: Caroline Schneider

Caroline Schneider — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:25:58 +0000

Ja, und unglaublich, dass ich mich in meinem Alter (!) nach 10 Jahren noch an sein Gesicht erinnere, wenn auch – leider – nicht mehr an seinen Namen.

Von: Ulrich

Ulrich — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:05:06 +0000

ganz offensichtlich war der Kellner ein Meister seines Fachs