Questions 10 – 14 are based on the following passage …
Questions 10 – 14 are based on the following passage In the United States, if you live next door to someone, you are almost automatically expected to befriendly and to interact with that person. It seems so natural that we probably don’t even consider that this is a cultural expectation not shared by all cultures. In Japan, however, the fact that your house is next to another’s does not imply that you should become close or visit each other. Consider, therefore, the situation in which a Japanese buys a house next to an American. The Japanese may well see the American as overly familiar and as taking friendship for granted. The American may see the Japanese as distant, unfriendly, and unneighborly. Yet, each person is merely acting according to the expectations of his or her own culture. –DeVito, Essentials of Human Communication, 3rd edition, 1999, p. 129 In the first sentence, the word automatically means