25214: RE: 25207: kathleen (ask) Re: 25206: Davis (reply) to Severe , Kathleen 25162: (fwd) eye contact (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "Walton, Robert" <robert.walton3@us.army.mil>

Walton (Reply)

Cultural protocols like other forms of learned behavior can be "unlearned"
if a different protocol is taught or demanded by an authority figure such as
a teacher, parent or first-sergeant.  It is possible (even likely) that eye
contact behavior was specifically addressed at a mission school that
required a western european standard of its students.  (Check out the
Haitian students who are schooled at a French-run mission.)