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- Title
Reflections on Lived Experiences and Communication.
- Authors
Mirivel, Julien C.
- Abstract
This article proposes that culture is not the most important influence in a person's life. A person, I argue, emerges through moment-to-moment lived experiences and the communicative moments that we co-create with others. To support this argument, I examine a short autobiography and my journal. In the process, I reveal five claims that speak to the process of becoming a person: (a) the individual emerges through lived experience, (b) it is not culture that matters most, but the people we meet, (c) communicative moments are crucial experiences, (d) cultures are predictable, not a person's life, and (e) culture does not provide answers, the individual must choose. The conclusion is an encouragement to communicate ethically.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION &; culture; REFLECTION (Philosophy); EXPERIENCE; TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy); PHENOMENOLOGY; ETHICS; AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Publication
China Media Research, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 3, p33
- ISSN
1556-889X
- Publication type
Article