Saturday, September 8, 2012

Building world though communication


For every person in order to understand an idea or complex concept it is necessary to find a practical analogy of that idea and implement its meaning in life. Thus to make an understanding of communication in the social constructionist perspective, lets apply it to everyday life. Just imagine yourself in a gathering of random people you have never met. After some time each of us will start looking for similar people by considering alike expressions of culture or belief. By seeing people who wear and talk like us we tend to start grouping together. This tendency demonstrates and proves that communication is like a boundary that surrounds people and holds them together.   For me as a one who was born outside of the United States it was always interesting to compare two cultures and see similarities and differences. One of those ideas is a value of each person as individual in American culture. In contrast, in most republics of the Soviet Union, there was no such thing as a valuable individual. The only respected was a group or collective, so everyone had to think like group. There was no such thing like personal opinion. By having an option to choose think differently and choose people who confess similar ideas as we do, we feel free and happy. It makes us desiring to develop and grow mentally, financially and socially. We are not tied in boundaries to live by someone’s ideas and rules. We live how we believe would be right to live and we find alike to us people through communication. 

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