Cultural miscommunication is something that I think people have faced before in their lives. If you are new to a culture or don't know the culture then there will be things that you don't understand. At times that is when you learn from your mistakes and you learn the culture. Other times it may be against the culture but appropriate for the situation such as on a airplane. In the book he talks about it taking seven mistakes compounded on one another to really make a tragedy. Mistake one is not telling someone, like the captain, what is going on and alerting them to a situation that is an emergency. They need to be able to communicate clearly no matter if one is the subordinate. Respect needs to be maintained while effective communication needs to be practiced because it can save lives.
I think that many people may experience this when they go to school for the first time at any level. When you go to high school, you are always trying to figure out what is the cool thing and what shouldn't you be doing that will make you stand out. I mean its bad enough that you are the freshman class, you don't want to draw more attention to you then necessary. This is were pressures are brought about to fit into a culture and there are always those who don't who become the outcasts. Schools work in a weird way in that they segregate those in the system all on its own. People are broken up into groups such as the jocks, cheerleaders, goths, band geeks and the drama club to name a few. Why does this happen? I think that people are afraid to break the mold and not fit into one group. People want to be a part of something and they will conform to become a part of a group. How far though are people willing to take it?
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