{"id":514,"date":"2018-04-09T18:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/?p=514"},"modified":"2018-04-09T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:32:26","slug":"odrine-reflection-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/2018\/04\/09\/odrine-reflection-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Odrine Reflection #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article reminded me that I\u2019m not the only person living in this world. I share this world with billions of people and we all communicate differently. When I first came to the US from Tanzania I was so confused by the way people acted. Once I was walking on my street and my landlord waved at me. But instead of waving back, i ran to her. She just looked at me surprised. I learned later that the American wave, which signified \u201ccome here\u201d in Tanzania meant \u201chi\u201d in the US. When I first came to the US, I saw children making eye contact with adults. I thought this was extremely disrespectful because In my culture it\u2019s not nice to make eye contact with those older than. In school, the teacher thought I was rude because I never looked at her in the face when she was talking. Later I learned eye contact in the US meant you were listening. Communication can be expressed in many ways. The clothes we were can also be a form of nonverbal expression. Wearing colorful clothes can tell a one story and if you wear black all the time that tells a different story of who you are. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article reminded me that I\u2019m not the only person living in this world. I share this world with billions of people and we all communicate differently. When I first came to the US from Tanzania I was so confused by the way people acted. Once I was walking on my street and my landlord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}