This is also true... --- ... In terms of cross-cultural communication.

Your example showed how a generational gap played in terms of proneness to implicit communication. But cross societies and countries, you can also find yourself in contexts where you are expected to be very straight forward, and others where you're expected to rely on the unsaid.

As in all the topics we've explored along the course, cultural sensitivity/context are paramount.

Source author: Liliana Oliva Bernal loliva@sre.gob.mx