{"id":779,"date":"2020-03-09T21:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/?p=779"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:23:31","slug":"high-context-cultures-and-low-context-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"High context cultures and Low context cultures&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dsc_0648.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dsc_0648\" title=\"Dsc_0648\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dsc_0648.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"><\/a><br \/>\nHave you ever heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-context_and_low-context_cultures\" target=\"_blank\">high context cultures and low context cultures?<\/a><br \/>\nif we try to classify language culture on all over the world, it says that there are high context culture and low context culture as follows,<br \/>\n<strong>High context culture<\/strong><br \/>\nJapan, China, Korea, Arabian, France<br \/>\n<strong>Low context culture<\/strong><br \/>\nUSA, Germany, Scandinavian, Swiss, UK<br \/>\nit seems Asia languages are in high contexts culture. This concept are established by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyond_Culture\" target=\"_blank\">the America anthropologist, Edward T. Hall <\/a><br \/>\nIn high contexts culture, information are transferred based on the situations not wards or contexts, and are not described using words. so to speak, read the air.honestly speaking it is dull.<br \/>\nOn the other hands, in the low contexts cultures, every single information is implanted into words and decision is baed on logic. Well, I have to examine words and logic with enough card. it is dull, also.<br \/>\nAnyway, the world is hard to live, does it. Soseki Natsume had resigned this when he ware in London.<br \/>\nRecently, I sometimes spend my work with collaboration foreign employees in my company. In the office , I sometimes received comments from my college that your explanation is bad Japanese contexts style. when I have a conference call with foreigners they tell me that you English is easy to understand. Although I have one brain, why the difference of depth of information is made between in Japanese which is on high contexts culture and in English which is low contexts culture?<br \/>\nYes, it is true. I take enough care logic of contexts when I speak in English rather than in Japanese. Or English gammer itself is the one to express and consider more logically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard of high context cultures and low context cultures? if we try to classify language culture  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.step3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}