As for how I communicate nonverbally, one issue that I struggled with, especially as a kid, was growing up in a household with a parent who had been raised by someone from a contact culture. My grandmother is Colombian and immigrated to America as an adult, but because of her upbringing in a contact culture, she felt that physical closeness was important and would hug and kiss my mom a lot. My mom, having been raised that way, would hug me a lot, and as a young child, I thought that being physically closeness was the norm. However, sometimes, when I would hug my friends, they would get uncomfortable and I didn’t really understand why. This idea of personal space is something that I had to learn over time, and while I don’t struggle with anymore, my instinct is to lean more towards the norms that govern contact cultures. It’s interesting how even though America, at large, is a more non-contact culture, because people come here with traditions from other places, whether smaller spaces are more non-contact or contact cultures can really depend on their own customs and norms.