This is very interesting. I love...

This is very interesting. I love hearing about culture differences like this. It reminds me of when I was taking my American Sign Language classes. My Deaf instructor was saying that "hearing" people don't say what they mean and it is frustrating. She was talking about the "nice" stuff we do like offer to pay something, etc. and not really mean it or how we are polite to say they look nice when they don't. She said Deaf people are very blunt, but it is not to be rude, they just need to be concise with their communication. Sometimes when "hearing" people do not say what they mean, Deaf people construe that as being dishonest.

I think all of that not saying what you mean in Spain would be really hard for me to get used to. I think it would be frustrating.

Thanks for this interesting blog post. ily

written by Teresa Haselmann on September 18, 2009

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