Every
person has lived a different life, and so they’ve had different experiences
that lead them to different perspectives.
People can interpret the same communicative material differently due to their
background. How one person interprets their reality is based on everything they
have experienced up to this point. When two people are trying to communicate,
one person is talking based on everything they have learned, while the other
person is receiving based on an entirely different set of factors.
To
add to that, language affects our perspective. Language and culture have a
large part in how communication works between two people. It’s obvious that two
people speaking different languages will have trouble communicating, but it’s
not so obvious when two people speaking the same language, who are brought up
in two different cultures, may have trouble understanding one another. Language
helps define our communication, and culture can affect communication by way of
perspective and worldview.
Let’s
look at the metaphor of the brain as a computer. Computers have different
operating systems such as Windows or Mac. In addition, computers can have
different levels of RAM, hard drives, or processors, which can alter how a
computer runs. The same could be said for humans. Each piece of communicative material that is viewed
by someone affects how they receive and process incoming information. The
variety of perspectives people have suggests that communicating effectively is
no easy task. As
for me… a series of yelps means, "I'm hurting!"
With
lovingkindness,
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