The document describes the author's experience moving from LA to Surabaya, Indonesia, where she found that some locals spoke very loudly and close to her face, which was considered rude in her home culture. She outlines possible ways to address this issue: politely asking for more space, casually ending a conversation, or avoiding unwanted interactions while politely asking for space if needed. The author concludes that avoiding unwanted interactions while also being able to politely ask for space is the best approach, as it avoids major consequences.

1. 3rd Assessment Task
By: Indi Amelia Kusuma
PYP 6A 2014 - 2015

2. Case Study
When I first arrived to Surabaya from LA, I tried to
talk to some of the people. Once I even tried to
ask a person to order food and then the waiter
talked right in my face very loudly. In my culture it
is very rude to do this and it was weird to
experience it. I also had a couple of friends who
would do the same while not knowing they were
spitting in my face.
Problems: It is a habit for some Indonesians to talk
loudly and kind of in your face, while in my
culture it is very rude to do this and can be very
annoying.

3. Possible Actions and it’s
Impacts
Possible Actions The Impacts
a) Ask very politely for the person
to step back and give personal
space.
Positive Negative
They could always
politely move back
without a problem.
They could be
embarrassed or
annoyed with how
the situation
happened.
b) Listen to them for a while and
casually say bye to not hurt their
feelings.
Positive Negative
You can both talk
and not get any
feelings hurt, at
least not for long.
You could need to
talk about very
important stuff and
not be able to talk
for how fast it
happened.
c) Just keep on moving around or
avoiding anything you wouldn’t
want to happen and if they bother
you, ask if they could step back
politely.
Positive Negative
You can talk for as
long as you want
without
disapointment.
They could be
annoyed on how
much you move or
act and think you
are not serious.

4. Best Solution
I think that ‘Just keep on moving around or avoiding
anything you wouldn’t want to happen and if they
bother you, ask if they could step back politely.’ is
the best solution because when you only try to
avoid what you don’t want to happen it doesn’t
cause such a big consequence and you can
always also step back yourself.