Personal Space Differences
"to the Germans, personal space is sacred. In WWII, German POWs took materials and made their own separate living compartments within the stockades. Germans insist on privacy of their yards and houses. In Berlin, after the war, when Germans were required by the American occupiers to share their kitchens and bathrooms, the Germans were killing each other due to the stress of having their space invaded. The order had to be rescinded."
Personal space can just be really, really huge
Personal Spaces can change across cultures taking more importance to some than others, having more tolerance, showing different perspectives about it.
It's amazing that these cultural paradigms could even be responsible for wars, either directly or indirectly.
The misunderstandings about Personal Space can cause war knowing that can it result in a sign of rudeness and misunderstanding.
If the boss of the house asks a visitor to be seated and the person innocently sits in the wrong chair, the boss can become agitated about this invasion of his territory and be put on the defensive. A simple question such as, 'Which chair is yours?' can avoid the negative results of making such a territorial error.
This question helps us to be aware of appropriate behavior. If the boss doesn't make this question, the visitor can make it. The questions are ways to understand the perspective of another who is around us.
when you're in other countries, again, watch how they do things.
This advice given for brother Ivers can help us to use our observation to try to understand the behavior of Personal Space. Observation became an important resource to know and to identify the appropriate way to understand it.
We all have an invisible, protective bubble around us
The lack of knowledge about Personal Space can cause disagreeable experiences. It is easy to take our-self perspective about that and offended us. It is difficult to let this perspective and to ask Why did that? hearing trying to understand the behavior did is necessary.
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In the 1950s, the director of the Zurich Zoo, Heini Hediger, saw the evolutionary roots of this behavior in his careful studies of animals
So personal territory can expand or contract depending on the local circumstances.
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The consequences of high-density living and overcrowding were seen in a study of the deer population on James Island, an island about a mile (2 kilometers) off the coast of Maryland in Chesapeake Bay in the United States.
investigation showed that the deer had died as a result of overactive adrenal glands, resulting from the stress caused by the degradation of each deer's personal territory as the population increased.
High-density living can challenge our Personal Space lift up the stress show us the news perspective of adaptation.
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