GREEK.

We all want to belong in a certain group, or find people who are from the same wavelength as us.
People who would accept us for who we are and work well with us.

Well, one drama that i have been hooked onto for rather long would definitely emphasis the importance of group communication and how groups work differently even with everyone's different characteristics, to actually achieve group synergy.

And the drama is known as GREEK which was actually named after the fact that the storyline is about the whole 'greek system' in college where you are allowed to enrol yourself in certain fraternitys or sorority's which is like a kind of 'brotherhood/sisterhood' whereby you live together, in one house with your fellow 'brother' & 'sister' and you do activities together, plan events and even help each other to study and guide one another to have a complete proper college experience.

The show's plots often take place within the confines of the fictional fraternities, Kappa Tau Gamma (ΚΤΓ) and Omega Chi Delta (ΩΧΔ), or the fictional sorority, Zeta Beta Zeta (ΖΒZ). Throughout the course of the series, other non-Greek characters and situations are introduced, but they all tie into larger relationships with the Greeks.

Mostly, the show clearly depicts how the new students are put thru a series of tests so as to make sure they would be included into the fraternity/sorority to make sure that they would fit the groups thinking and eventually, as seen by one of the main character Rusty Cartwright, you can observe that though he was actually a 'geek' in a way. He was still accepted in the Kappa Tau Gamma house as there was some shared similarity between the house members and Rusty and so they were willing to socially accept him and form interpersonal relationships with him.

With the forming of such fraternity and sorority's it just goes to show how much people want to be socially accepted and what people would do to 'fit in' to a certain social construct just to have group communication.

Also through the usage of proximity, since all the students in the specific fraternity/sorority live together under one roof, there is an increase in the interaction of the group and this increases the group cohesion and communication as like in GREEK, when one 'sister' has a problem and seems rather depressed in the house, the other 'sisters' immediately try to get to the bottom of the problem and try to cheer her up and try to be there for her as since living together would make you turn to the other person when you're stuck in a rut or have something to get off your chest.

So im gonna leave you with the trailer of the GREEK series and please do comment about what do you think on how people form groups and how they make it work very well and come together properly whereas certain people and their groups do not work so well together.

Unit 2.

Well we all came across the whole molest case at the Siloso Beach Countdown Party didnt we?

The one where it was reported in the newspaper that a girl was molested openly at the countdown party, by four men but no one seemingly came to her rescue? Well the article below, would explain the situation much more clearly.
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/3552/4136/300696

In the article, they said that 'no one was there to help her but yet were taking photos and videos of the incident'?
Well personally, i feel that this is absolutely outrageous as if you the people present there thought it was such a bad act that they could whip out their cameraphones to take what was happening, down in a video, well why could they not just went up stage to the podium to help the girl? Furthermore, since i was at the siloso countdown party itself, i know that the beach was rather crowded but there were no secluded areas where the peopler could get 'raped' in a sense as there was people everywhere and if someone wanted to stop such an act of travesty, they could have.
So, i went to research on further online and guess what I found?
Pictures of the girl looking like she was actually enjoying the guys touching her, which the molest article had happily left out.


See, does she look like she was unhappy or that she was being molested? NO.
This just shows sometimes due to nonverbal communication and due to people's own social contruct of others, there could be misunderstandings of such. Just because the girl was seen dancing with four foreign workers, people immediately assumed that the foreign workers were molesting her and that she was in a plight.

Firstly, if she did not want to be caught in such a situation, why was she scantily-clad in just her G-string and bra in the first place? Does it give a respectful girl vibe to you? I think not. Dont you think because of the way she was clothed she was inviting and sending out wrong signals thru her non-verbal communication to the guys at the party?

Secondly, just because she was surrounded by a group of foreign workers who were grinding her, that does not mean you can immediately perceive the situation as her being molested just by associating the foreign workers with molest and treating them as communication artifacts?

This shows that the usage of non-verbal communication is very subjecive in terms of the how the person who sees or receives the communication, perceives it.
So what do you think about this article and whats your take on it?
Please do comment, thanks!