Comedy
How do conversational styles differ between people and cultures? We discuss using our phone's greyscale feature, how peoples' conversational styles differ, and what it means for a country to be powerful. Speakers: Bartholomew Joyce, Adamya Tiwari, Oiva Mikaeli Lappi. Show notes 00:00:00Intro 00:02:46Bart and Oiva describe what happened after setting their phones to grey scale/black and white. 00:11:00How important is colour, really? Does colour affect you? 00:19:33How conversational styles differ between people and cultures. Mansplaining: is interruption and explanation a gendered problem? Oiva likens it more to personal differences in how people tend to talk. 00:36:40The four different conversational styles. 00:46:45Discussion: What makes a country powerful? 01:07:48Outro References Tom Scott video: All The Colours, Including Grue: How Languages See Colours Differently.New York Times article: How to explain mansplaining.Forbes article: Which of these 4 communication styles are you?RS02: Discussion of Sam Harris' TED talk.