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Yuika Yoshida

28 January 2019

SEE-I #1

The most important concept described in chapter one is the idea of worldview and its
impact on the communication process.

In other words, the point of communicating is to better understand others through


expression and listening. What makes this process so interesting and challenging at times is the
fact that people all possess different worldviews. I often overlooked the fact that aside from
separate cultures and languages, different worldviews can be as subtle as what we find morally
correct or not. These differing outlooks on life affect how persuasive or effective someone is the
most in my opinion. Not assuming that the audience is going to understand almost forces the
speaker to either be more clear, or make more deliberate word choices that will make the
“decoding” easier for the audience. It doesn’t matter how well-delivered one’s speech is, if it
doesn’t take the audience’s point of view into consideration, the intended message may get lost
in translation. Apart from communicating, keeping someone else’s personal beliefs and values in
mind also just helps create empathy. In the end, when a person puts effort into things such as
learning a certain culture’s greeting to better relate, they broaden their own way of thinking.

For example, I’ve seen the impact a difference in worldviews has made on an interaction
within my own family. Originally being from Japan, my mother’s axiology, or her values,
contrasts greatly to an Americans. When door-to-door salesmen come to sell a particular product
to us, when they don’t take off their shoes when they enter our home, they lose credibility in the
eyes of my mother. While it may seem like a trivial matter in the eyes of the salesmen, it comes
off as impolite due to the difference in cultural values. As an effect, my mother is already less
receptive and reluctant to hear what they have to say. In addition to cultural worldviews, another
example I’ve encountered comes from life right on campus at Irvine Valley College.
Occasionally, there are protests on campus either trying to express their beliefs on religion or a
certain political party. Most of the times their opinions differ from mine, and when they
approach me aggressively without taking that into account, I feel less open to hearing them out.
These examples altogether have made realized how important it is to consider the other person’s
worldview. Even if they differ, taking a more sensitive approach can make the listener more
open-minded.

This is like how inkblot tests look different to every person.

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