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My younger sister really wants to be a health volunteer in our place and serve for our community. She is really someone who have a good heart for all our fellows. This is because a friend of her died before with a sickness that only few died. Her friend died from a simple flu then because she doesn’t have the money to buy medicine or have checked-up with doctors, her flu had a complications and she died because of it.

My sister is enrolled on a health school and presently doing some clinical trials. There is a clinic in our place where there are few volunteers that serves the people. They are also not as knowledgeable as my sister but my sister still wants to become an expert when it comes to healthcare so she will finish her course first before she volunteer to become one of the health servant in our place.

If adults learn their ways o speaking as children growing up in separate social worlds of peers, then conversation between women and men is cross-cultural communications. Although each style is valid on its own terms, misunderstandings arise because the styles are different. Taking a cross-cultural approach to male-female conversation makes it possible to explain why dissatisfaction are justified without accusing anyone of being wrong or crazy.

Learning about style differences won’t make them go away, but it can banish mutual mystification and blame. Being able to understand why our partners, friends and even strangers behave the way they do is a comfort, even if we still don’t see things the same way. It makes the world into more familiar territory. And having others understands why we talk and act as we do protects us from the pain of their puzzlement and criticism.

We all want, above all, to be heard – but not merely to be heard. We want to be understood – heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know what we meant. With increased understanding of the ways women and men use language should come a decrease in frequency of the complaint “you just don’t understand.”