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the use of levels of Javanese depend on social position). The same applies to the concept of context. Emotions also have a cultural aspect, because the values of feeling differ by culture.
Cultural aspects are reflected in each communication model. For example, transmitter and receiver each have their own culture (triangle model). This is most apparent in everyone's reference frame, the way the sender encrypts the message and the receiver decodes the message. The intent of the sender does not automatically come across to the recipient. The message itself is often a cultural issue because not every message is important in every culture. And not all cultures use the same channels. Furthermore, the degree of suitability of a certain channel for a certain message differs per culture. Can you dismiss someone from a job via a text message? Yes, in the U.S., no in the Netherlands. Feedback is a message in itself with the cultural aspects of the framework. Cultural differences often create more noise because the partners are less aligned, like a radio that is not properly tuned. The relationship of transmitter and receiver relative to each other can have different meanings in different cultures (a teacher has more status in Finland than in the Netherlands;