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My So Called Enemy: Face-To-Face Interaction

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When an argument arises, everyone has the choice to either talk it out face-to-face, talk over technology, or to ignore the issue and let it get worse. This has been displayed recently by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The movie-documentary “My so Called Enemy” shows how face-to-face interactions might help the conflict subside, but not exactly how it works. The evidence that is provided below shows that face-to-face interactions may be able to help resolve issues better than non-face-to-face interactions. Face-to-face interactions can help with resolving issues for many reasons. One of which is the fact that when someone is face-to-face with someone else they can pick up on body language and facial expressions. Body language and facial expressions are one of the most important ways to determine someone 's true feelings without them needing to say directly how they feel. Additionally, with face-to-face interactions someone can pick up on audio clues and how people’s voices change with their emotions. This, as well as the body language and facial expressions, invokes empathy and makes understanding others much easier and more realistic. In the documentary, this was shown by how the girls’ emotions were displayed differently though texts, versus how their emotions were shown with face-to-face interactions. With the text, …show more content…

Face-to-face interactions can expose true feelings and evoke empathy through facial expressions, body language, and vocal cues. Additionally, being face-to-face allows for bonding activities such as playing games. In the documentary this was shown by comparing the texts and real interactions the girls had with each other. Although solving major conflicts with only face-to-face interactions may take some time and work, most people can solve their problems much easier by just talking it out, rather than texting, calling, or

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