精彩内容 …… High contact and low contact cultures Hall shows how people from different cultures combineinformation from several senses to orient themselves in space andthen classifies some cultures as high contact and others as lowcontact. In high contact cultures what people sense when they areclose to a person or object is most important. The information fromtouch, from the skin generally and from muscles as well as whatpeople see using the inner part of the eye (the part you use tothread a needle) is used a lot. In high contact cultures peoplewant to get close enough to one another and to objects to sensethem in these ways. In a low contact cultures the middle third ofthe eye plays a greater role, because to see someone’s whole facewithout distortion, we must stand a certain distance away. At thatdistance we do not sense the other person’s body heat or subtlesmell but we can see a frown or a smile. This far away we probablycannot see the widening of the pupil of the other person’seyes. These ideas may be new to you. For most of us the culturalaspects of sensory perception are part of subjective culture. Itcomes from that part of the cultural iceberg that is hidden belowthe sea of out awareness. People going from a familiar to anunfamiliar culture are not aware of the reasons, but they oftenhave strong emotional reactions to these differences. When a personfrom a high contact culture goes to a low contact culture, he orshe is likely to feel that people are cold, lack human warmth, andare indifferent and pay no attention to them. The person isreacting to differences in the way people in the new culture usetheir senses. ……
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