In a brief essay, discuss some of the cultural variables that create noise in the communication ...

Cultural variables that can influence a person's perceptions have been identified through research. The cultural variables are: attitudes, social organization, thought patterns, roles, language (spoken or written), nonverbal communication (including kinesic behavior, paralanguage, proxemics, and object language), and time. Saudi Arabia is a high-contact culture, where people prefer to stand close, touch a great deal, and experience a "close" sensory involvement. On the other hand, North America is a low-contact culture where people have less sensory involvement, stand farther apart, and touch far less. In addition, in monochronic cultures like the U.S., time is experienced in a linear way, with a past, a present, and a future, and time is treated as something to be spent, saved, made up, or wasted. Classified and compartmentalized, time serves to order life. Polychronic people–Latin Americans, Arabs, and those from other collectivist cultures–may focus on several things at once, be highly distractible, and change plans often.