5/26/2021 Personal Space Differences.

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Personal space differences will change with strangers, family, friends, boss, coworkers, or with our love. You can divide by closer or larger personal space. For example, our family, friends, and love have closer personal space and we feel comfortable with them. However, with strangers, employees, or boss this personal space changes and it is larger because if they approach us we see them as intruders. Besides, culture, situations, gender, ages, and emotions create other personal space differences.

Another example of personal space where is changed by situations is transportation. In Mexico City change when you are in the subway and most when it is rush hour and people are pushing each other into the wagon, not matter if you are a woman or a man.



Children do not have personal space because personal space is learned around 12 years.

By gender, the women create longer personal space to men coworkers and most the married women not to create sexual misunderstandings.

Culture has different personal space in which it will be necessary to understand as an ESL teacher where your students could feel uncomfortable if you invade their personal space or they feel rejected by you if you have personal space large. Think about these examples to create a good personal space when you have different cultures in your classroom.

Italians have more eye contact and they feel relaxed to speak closer.

Australians have personal space larger and many times others people think that they are cold.

Japanese people have a closer personal space but others think like Europeans and Americans feel “pushy” by them.

 

References

Personal Space Differences

https://video.byui.edu/media/05+Personal+Space+Differences/0_yz4lk5f0

Japanese subway station

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FQsg12hoY

Personal Space Ownership

https://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/chap9.html

Comments

  1. noemicanterasalcedoMay 29, 2021 at 7:24 PM

    It is true that having students maintain an appropriate distance between them especially if they are children and adolescents helps a lot in the development of the class and thus they also learn respect for the private space of their classmates. As teachers it will be a challenge to achieve it but the results will be optimal.

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