THE SCOLLON

"People often don't say what they mean and they often don't mean what they say?"

Not all of us will learn psychology in their life and this is why we cannot interpret people by listening to what they say. Who knows, the speaker might say something different from their true meaning as they are trying not to hurt others feelings. 

As we Malay, we are taught by our parents since we are small, not to hurt others’ feelings and this is why when we speak, we tend to say differently from our own meaning. This is because in Malay culture, we have high context of dimensions and we are rich in values and every single thing that we do, it has values in it. 

Culture differences are not only between different country or region, it can also be between gender. Based on what Scollon stated above, when a man in a relationship sees or reads it, they would say that this is how women communicate or think. Most of women would deny it, but it might be true. The video below shows what women say and what they really meant.. 

Have fun watching the video!

                                   

                               What do you think about the video? Is it true?

                                                   How about this one?

                                 

Moreover the quote above had us thought about hand gestures around the world. Different countries may have different meaning in hand gestures.

 If you are planning to travel around the world, make sure you do some research about the country and the culture so that you would not use hand gestures that is forbidden in certain countries.