How listening is valued in Chinese culture

HOW LISTENING IS VALUED IN CHINESE CULTURE
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Generally, people have accepted the relation between language and culture.  Language is normally taken as the verbal expression of a culture. Many of the fields we express our thoughts in are influenced by the language we use even the way we think to an extent is shaped by the values and customs of the areas we live in. Basically, culture is the foundation that a person’s world lies on and many aspects such as language, beliefs, values, art, music and many more, define it.
Carbaugh in his book “Listening and Landscape among the Blackfeet” he explores listening as a form of cultural communication. Blackfeet "listening" is thus a highly reflective and revelatory mode of communication that can open one to the mysteries of unity between the physical and spiritual, to the relationships between natural and human forms, and to the intimate links between places and persons, all the while providing protection, power, and enhanced knowledge of one's small place in the world (Carbaugh, 1999). In this light, culture will also affect how we value listening.
When used in a special way, listening refers to a form of communication that is unique among a group of people called the Blackfeet – Native Americans who have lived in northern Montana from the beginning. In its special way, it has an intimate connection to the participants and a specific physical place. The kind of listening that will then follow will be a form of cultural listening. Thus, it refers to a cultural practice among the Blackfeet.
Many times we feel the disconnect with own the surrounding when we travel to places with a different discourse. Without knowing the discourse, we are not sure how to act. Caught in such a place, we feel disoriented and out of place. Discourses hence will dictate cultural actions. There is, I think, much we can learn from "listening" to places through discours...