fabio

I interviewed Fabio Diniz. He is a freshman on the men’s volleyball and came here from Brazil. When he’s in Brazil he likes to go to the beach even though he’s from the city. He really enjoys playing beach volleyball when he gets the chance to go. He likes going out to nightclubs often which are way different from here and super fun. Back home he has his mom, dad, and two brothers. He says that they respect who he is. He thinks his dad is a major portion of that because he is his role model. His family is all brazillian, but his name “carvalho britto” came from spain and “Pereira diniz” is an Italian name.

Journal 2

“Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides most effectively from its own participants.” I asked Fabio what he thought about this quote and his response was that he does not full agree with it. In his opinion culture is never hidden. He says that everyone from different cultures is different from one another and it is obvious when someone is not a part of that culture. He stated that he is very different from the Americans here at Pfeiffer. He is very proud of his culture and not afraid to show it. I explained that I felt like this quote was somewhat true in that people tend not to notice some of their smaller attributes that make them who they are. For example when I first moved to Colorado I didn’t really think there was much difference between the California culture and the Colorado one at the time because I was fairly young. However, I realized one day when my friend pointed it out. I call the super market just market, so whenever I said lets go to the market they would make fun of me. I never realized that that was something they didn’t do. That was I began actually looking at things. A...

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When we went over nonverbal communication I asked Fabio about the channels Brazilians use. We started talking about kinesics and how Brazilians show deference by not looking someone directly in the eye like we do. For Haptics Brazilians are very comfortable in their own skins and are always friendly they usually show this with a touch of the arm or a two-kiss greeting. I then asked him about proxemics and he told me that they could have conversations several feet apart or extremely close and they would still be comfortable with. Fabio says that they are a people that are so comfortable in themselves that minor things like this don’t even faze them. Whereas, we feel extremely uncomfortable when someone we don’t have an intimate relationship with invades our space