Sitting in class and watching a video about social interactions.
The speaker was talking about public space, social space, personal space, and intimate space.
He discussed a study of 6 business men and their personal space according to their culture.
2 business men from America, 2 from France, and 2 from South America.
There was a camera in the room of the meeting and they observed how many times the men touched during the meeting.
American men: 2 (think about it shake hands when meet, shake hands when leave)
French men: 110
South American men: 180
incredible how much our culture hates touching and loves our bubbles of personal space. No wonder we're all so depressed.
3 comments:
I read a book a while ago that talks about that. It was called "bodylore". It made mention that the reason americans are all about massages, tattoos, piercings and anything that is hypertouch like that is because we're all so separated and anti touch. Its really messing with Americans.
why would I want to touch and be touched by a random business associate?
exactly...you are such an american business man steve
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