Edward T. Hall describes the day in the 1930s when, as a supervisor of a Dine (Navajo) work crew, he learned how to learn about cultural appropriateness. Read the passage below. Identify three characteristics of nonverbal communication that this passage illustrates. Explain.

"My tutorial with Sam Yazzie began the first time the two of us climbed into our truck. After I slammed my ill-fitting door, he turned around, looked at his door, and pulled it quietly shut. After I had slammed my door a couple of more times and he had pulled his shut quietly, I began to get the point."