Tribal Nature

Tribal Nature Impacts on verbal and nonverbal levels

Verbal:Each tribe has their own verbal communication, from the prehistoric era to today. Check out your own friends and relatives, is there acknowledgement of your own language? I know that my boys and I are famous for quoting movie script in certain situations (check out MySpace!). Hence the reason we have so many languages, dialects, etc. Even in the U.S., the southern language is much different than California, New York, Minnesota! There is even a difference in L.A vs. San Diego!

Nonverbal:Speaking of L.A. vs. San Diego, check out the L.A. city scene, very black and white - clothing that is! While in San Diego, we have adopted a much more relaxed business-casual dress in much lighter colors! There is also the way we walk, react, think and process. What do you think of when I state the word dope? Did you process it to be drugs, a silly person or a dwarf? lol! Okay, had to throw in a Disney reference!

In conclusion, the impact to our communication with 'other tribes' are very different. Where I may call my gal friends 'you guys' in the south, this would be offensive to a group of ladies. If I were to walk up and hug my Korean friend - they would take offense, this is not the way they great.

When you think about tribes - think about the different sections of work groups - how different are they? The I.T. group, finance, the front-line service group?
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