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Body Language International Cultural Differences
How eye contact, winking, shaking head, okay sign, thumbs up sign, interpreted in different international cultures
Created byEric Yeboah
Last updated 3/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Get understanding of world cultural implications
- Learn to understand the meaning of gestures and its interpretation for a specific group of people
- enable people to travel to places of convenience knowing more on where they are going and the cultural or behavior
- learn the effective and efficient use of body language
- Help interpret body language with complete meaning
- learn the strategies to adopt as tourist
- Physical expression
- Tone of voice
- Application of body language
- How to use somebody body language to identify where she comes from
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Course content
13 sections • 44 lectures • 2h 2m total length
Requirements
- No special requirement
- Desire to understand more about body language
Description
Body language is one of the most important aspect of communication we have all taken for granted, as William shake speare one said " there's language in her eye, her cheek, her lips" this means every part of our body communicate with meaning. The pride of any body on this earth is your unique identity that is culture, which is the way of life of a group of people, understanding people means understanding their culture and respecting the culture.
As long as the world is a global place we need to learn other people body language to enable as fit in every environment. It is time that multinationals add body language as a course to enable the global staff understand and respect cultures.
This course most be learn by all to enable as apply body language in a professional way the eye contact, winking, thumps up etc all have a role to apply in business. All of as must take body language serious because it have effect in doing business.I edge every body to use body language for business and personal advantage. Emotions can also detect through body postures. Research has shown that body postures are more accurately recognized when an emotion is compared with different or neutral emotion. Our individual body speaks depending on the circumstances example when you are angry your facial expression shows something is wrong. Finger gestures are also commonly used to exemplify one's speech as well as denote the state of well-being of the person making them.
Identifying a persons origin through body language involves observing cultural variations in nonverbal communication, specifically focusing on eye contact, spatial preferences, facial expression and hand gestures. While individual personality plays a role cultural backgrounds influence how people use their bodies, with significant differences existing between Western, Eastern, and Middle Eastern norms
Who this course is for:
- Tourist / Travellers
- Business executive
- Students
- Professionals
- Online Instructors
- multinational companies
- marketers
- sales people
- Any body who want to understand international cutures
- CEO
- COO
- Directors
- Consultants
- International relations executives
- Business moguls
- General public