As coming from China, I have immersed into the Chinese culture for over 20 years, being influenced by such culture in the way of communication.Also, I have a bit awareness about the role that the culture plays in the aspect of socialization, I will illustrate it in the following passage.
The Chinese culture is not a exoteric culture, but a implicit one.People accustom to express themselves by using the implied word, especially when introducing to a stranger, trying to be a cautious man without any aggressive behavior that may offend the other.Consequently, we avoid to talk about the celebrities or the events that are debatable, instead of talking about something enjoyable, such as the common friends or the moives that the person you talk to are interested in.Definitely, we are all willing to share the joys with the new friend we meet, but we seldem our sorrows except facing the close friend, for we are all afraid to bring the atomsphere to frozen point, if the listener cannot share the same emotion and not react to the issue correctly.
Logically, living in this culture will encourage us to suppress our emtion , bring tension to our mind.However, we will try to show our negative emotion in a easy way, like taunting about ourselves or making a cold joke on the person whom you hate.On the contrary, we also stay with the line while demostrating our affection to the other. For example, regularly, we will embrace or shake hand with the friends but not kiss them in public, which is the consequence of the style of education that has been lasted for thousands of year.From kindergarden to high school,we are always told that we shouldn't be too active to express ourselves in a superficial way but let other to understand our mind.
In a conclusion,from the obscure poem of ancient time to the Chinese style of communication, we keep learning the conventional culture and showing it to the way of socialization.