Reddit reviews Beyond Culture

Academic Cross Cultural Communications papers are literally made of this stuff, if you want some direction. Edward T. Hall's "Beyond Culture" is a good primer to a lot of cross cultural communication concepts (although it focus on international cross cultural communication), and the field in general does a lot of analysis of how to communicate in a a way to make your ideas understood in good context by another party because of it's usefulness in diplomacy.

Some language and rhetoric texts would also be a good place to start.

All fair, but this was made political. That was total bullshit.

Clapper was an idiot for his explanation when he said he was being cute by half. Wyden set him up though. He already knew the answer, and if Clapper would have said lets go to a closed session or that's classified then rumors. How do we know if Wyden wasn't being political?

It pisses me off to no end that Greenwald and Snowden are blaming Obama for this. This is all a republican/libertarians wet dream. It's politics not open debate. Also the PRISM direct access was a total lie too, but that was done to build the hype. That's all this is.

I guess at the end of the day most people don't care how they get their info or from whom. IMO it's very important though.

I guess that's because I am a high context person who grew up in a low context society. Neither is wrong but there can be too much of either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_low_context_cultures

http://mqjeffrey.hubpages.com/hub/High-Context-vs-Low-Context-Communication

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Culture-Edward-T-Hall/dp/0385124740

Thanks for mentioning Edward Hall!