This week we are asked if we communicate different from
other people in different groups? What
ways do I communicate differently?
The foundation of this discussion is cultural diversity and
what is seen in your colleagues at school, neighborhood, workplace, in the
family; considering all the aspects that make up culture, race, religion,
political affiliation, sexual orientation, varying abilities, and so on.
I have been asked to share
strategies about what could be useful to me communicating more effectively to
groups I have been identified with.
Well, there is no strategy for me because I have just learned how to be
truthful with those I don’t know and in turn, some do the same for me. I once walked up to a Korean man sitting just
looking out of the window and asked him how he felt about being in
America. He turned to me with amazement
and not scorn; said: “I always thought that America was a easy place to live,
and not that I am here, I want to go home.”
He then asked me why did I want to know, and I said to him that the look
on his face said that he wanted someone to talk to. He laughed and said ‘is that so!’. From that conversation, I learned how to say
hello in Korean, goodbye, thank you, and see you again.
While working in the shoe
department at Macy’s just to do something for the summer a few years back. I came across some Japanese. They were very uptight at first and thought
that I didn’t know what they were saying about me because I was American. I shocked them back when I responded in
Japanese and they too felt very ashamed for having to assume that I was
ignorant to their culture and language. That
is why you never, ever judge a book by its cover, even in the early childhood
field. Don’t underestimate your children
nor the adults you are teaching especially if parents are involved. If you don’t know the level of intelligence they
are carrying with them, it’s best to stay in your place until you know for sure
when you should speak or ask questions.
Many problems can be averted from being humble, not humiliating.
To sum all this up will take more
than one class session because I am many chosen my ancestors. I am deeply coded and many will not
understand the complexity of my being just through the simple use of
words. Over the years I have learned to
communicate beyond just the context of cognition and every cycle of life around
the sun, I evolve. This evolution will
never stop even in the next life. We are
not bound or promised this life or the next.
The only purpose we are here to fulfill is to understand why we are here
and in between is up to us.
In my tradition, I am considered a
father by universal law and by law of human consciousness. The way I communicate is through the spirit
of an individual. Most may not see that
on first contact but my aim is to communicate with a person’s spirit not the
flesh. The flesh can lie, steal, cheat,
and be very cunning if not careful, but the spirit never lies…it can although,
be very deceptive if you allow it to be.
It depends on the level of spiritual strength that a person has.
I have often been told that I am
ahead of my time because of the way I think and it sometimes gets me into
situations where I go over peoples’ heads and have to summarize or use a
context that is easier to understand or conceptualize. But one I turned a particular age, I figured
out how to facilitate that in which I have learned by simply just asking what a
person would like to know and if they want to whole truth or just a
summarization? Usually, this leads to a
sit down and we must have a lot of water because it can take a long time. Once the process starts it always leaves the
person satisfied and fulfilled with new understandings and new ways of looking
at things in life. I then feel as if my
job was done. Now those that don’t want
to respond or have nothing to say usually are thinking on how to come back and
start all over again or ask someone else that gives them what they want to hear
instead of the core elements.
Through my mistakes with
communicating with people has taught me to be a deep thinker. Look at what others seem uninteresting because
there one will find the answers to many of the issues about life as we think we
know it. In between the lines is where
the truth lies! I don’t think like the
average person for a reason, one it’s because of the time of year I was born. Two,
the planets that were in alignment when I was born; third, the energy that
surrounded me when I was born was passed down from my mother from my
ancestors. It’s not rocket science to
figure these things out about yourself, but you have to be willing to accept
the truth about who you really are and that makes all the stress of the world
not rest on your shoulders alone.
Communication with other people has
always been easy for me because I am not afraid to ask how do you say hello in
your native tongue? How do you say thank
you in your native tongue? So far I have
learned how to say hello in 7 different languages and dialects. I have learned how to be formal and informal
in many different situations with that foundation I have been able to break all
barriers that keep people distant from one another. The only thing that I haven’t done yet is
just travel the world and sit with people just to learn their customs to bring
them all together. That is the work of
my doctrine and I am ready…I am ready for the change of this world, and the
people who live here as well.
