Talk:High-context and low-context cultures

message: It has been my observation that the qualities, factors, behaviors associated to low- & high-context cultures are also visible in other types of cultures besides national / socio-linguistic ones. Specifically, for example, I would say that the "professional" or "endeavor" cultures of such things like engineering, science, medicine, finance, insurance, law and politics can be considered quite "low context" as they demand explicitness, clarity, as little ambiguity as possible, objectivity, specificity, etc. BorisAnthony (talk) 15:32, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Beyond National / Socio-Linguistic Cultures

message: Is this really an example of Japan being high context and America being low context? To me it seems like a simple lack of specificity in the wording: "We would accept no more than 3 defects per 10,000." Also, there's no citation and it is even stated to be possibly apocryphal, so I'm removing it unless someone has the source. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 07:59, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: IBM Japan example

message: Russian and Slavic Type Cultures are clearly low-context, as anybody who has spent time interacting with the people there can attest to. The interaction (both male and female) is *much* more direct, with very little ambiguity, compared to, say, Japan or Thailand, which rely more on indirect context clues.
Also missing from the list are African and Carribean cultures, which are much more direct, unambiguous and open.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.122.212 (talk) 00:38, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Russia and Africa

message: To the author(s),
I enjoyed reading this artcile very much. The topic was mentioned in a blog and a link was stated to this page. The blog is completely focused on living in the Philippines (a high context culture country). I happen to visit the Philippines twice on 2 different occassions. I like to think I know a lot of the Filipino-culture but still I dont understand everything of their culture maybe even nothing. The problem seems to be that nobody is able to explain it to me.
To understand the difference between high and low better I would like to read some real life examples if possible. I wonder how a new born baby acquires the high context culture? Is it innate, will it acquire during the bringing up or will it be "picked up" from the street (street-cred)? If it is innate then what about the Tabula Rasa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa? It is stated in this article that high context cultures only "change little over time". Can someone explain why? Are they afraid of progress, improvement, evolving? There is a lot of modern technology available in the Philippines, like the latest cell phones, modern cars, great malls, fashionable clothing.
Traits/behaviors I observed while being in the Philippines are/were:
- delaying (no time-management)
- hypocrisy (a lot of)
- funeral processions disturbing all other traffic
- no efficiency whatsoever
- there seems to be that nothing can be planned
- no one seems to have an active hobby
- no time-schedules at jeepney-stops/bus-stops
- no fixed jeepney-stops/bus-stops
- I am very in doubt about the quality of all their education-levels (including university)
- drivers do blow their car/jeepney/bus/tri-cycle horns all the time even when there is no danger ahead.
To me it seems people in the Philippines are stuck in the lowest level of the Maslow Piramyd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I address/label their culture/behavior as primitive.
Haighton 16:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  High Context Culture: wondering/question(s) 

message: Context is comparative, as opposed to a binary.  Hall does not categorize certain cultures as "high context" and others as "low context", he argues that certain cultures are comparatively higher/(lower) in context than others.  Accordingly, merely listing cultures under one of the respective labels misrepresents the concepts. There should be a table or chart displaying the spectrum, with cultures positioned on it.  -96.26.108.183 (talk) 16:53, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gradient/spectrum from High to Low and Low to High 

message: graduate lectures on international business practices included discussion of direct (low-context) versus indirect (high-context) communication styles of different cultures. The equivalence of these terms could be noted, perhaps as a see-also. 204.8.27.140 (talk) 18:19, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  synonym: direct/indirect communication style 

message: Please provide some concrete examples of what are meant by “low-context messages” versus “high-context messages.”  You provide an abstract definition and then proceed with specific examples of low-context and high-context cultures, but I would like concrete examples of low-context versus high-context messages please, since these seem to be the core concept in question. 108.56.238.217 (talk) 05:57, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I came to this article because I encountered the "high-context/low-context" terms in a discussion of linguistics. Having read the entire article (though not its sources), I'm thoroughly confused as to what high-context and low-context messages actually **mean**. Nor do I have any sense of whether this distinction is widely accepted by sociologists or anthropologists. —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 00:21, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please define? 

message: The article says that higher-context people respond better to direct words, but that seems to me to be backwards.  A high-context person from the US wants everything spelled out "in black and white" whereas a low-context person from Japan will understand  "vague" things from the context.  Am I misunderstanding something or has the text got it wrong?211.225.33.104 (talk) 05:59, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: First of all, you have it backwards: US is low-context, Japan is high-context. To answer your question, I think they may have just worded it badly. Maybe they meant "direct" as in short, i.e. few words. High-context cultures prefer fewer words.--2605:E000:6392:7300:3480:B5E6:499:7DE3 (talk) 10:59, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marketing 

message: Given that this article has far too much verbiage for its references to support, and that much of what we have is pretty much incomprehensible and might by WP:OR, would it not make sense to cut this down to two or three well referenced paragraphs carefully written so as to actually make sense to a general reader? It's not like it is a speedy deletion candidate as "patent nonsense" but, as it stands, if it was up for AfD I'd be !voting delete. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:02, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recommendation 

message: The main image in the article contains the unverified claim "men are typically more low context" and "women are typically more high context". This claim is not returned to at any point in the article. Without any citations to support this claim, or any discussion of this claim, it reads as a crass generalisation made off the cuff, and should probably be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:19B:B00:87A0:D033:57FC:9305:292F (talk) 15:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crass gender generalisation 

message: Currently the article first lists Finland as a low-context culture and immediately after refers to it as a high-context one. This seems like a confusing contradiction. -2001:14BA:1FF3:F400:8556:4BE9:2ED3:C1A1 (talk) 11:29, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finland high or low context? 

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