Cultural "Other" Awareness

 Sometimes the topic CULTURAL "OTHER" AWARENESS can confuse you a little but the way that i saw it to undertanded in a better way is how the people treat to each other in different countries, knowing this is much easier and the important part will be who is this person, a stranger, your friend, your family etc...

In this class i noticed that is really similar bewteen countries, i meet people from Malaysia, China, Japan and more and everywhere was almost the same, they are respecful and don't talk to strangers if they don't need to but sometimes they don't mind to talk, most of the times will be just a little greating maybe because they hold the elevator for you or something like that but is not bad to talk, of course having in mind wich topic are you gonna talk about, there's lots of topic to talk about but you cannot talk any of them with a stranger, you will always will try to talk about neutral or not to personal topics like the weather or something you saw on the news; some people will say that they don't care talking about more personal topics the problem can start because even if you don't mind talking those topics you don't know if will be the same for the other person, thats why you have to be a little bit careful with what you talk about.

Of course all this is in case that you talk but acording of what i remember of the class usualy is just going to be a little smile or greating and that's the part where i feel a bit different acording to Costa Rica because we like to talk (of course not everyone  but is really common) is kinda normal to talk to stranger maybe just because your waiting for the bus together of something similar and even more if you are tourist. So i really like this topic because it help me to see what other cultures do in this type of situations.