From culture to culture the proportion of nonverbal behavioral communication varies relative to the verbal communication that is used. Communication styles that focus relatively more on words to communicate and less on behavior are said to be low-context. "High-context" cultures, 1 , rely relatively more on nonverbal context or behaviors than they rely on 2 , verbal symbols of meaning. The difference in style 3 that of time being conveyed to the second by the precise, numeric 4 of a digital watch, as compared to telling time by the 5 movement of the hands of an analog grandfather clock. This dissimilarity in communication styles between low-and high-context cultures creates frequent, significant obstacles to intercultural communication.A high-context message is one in which more of the information is 6 in the physical context or internalized in the person receiving it, and less in the coded, explicit, transmitted verbal part of the message. A low-context communication is just the opposite. The focus is on vesting more of the information in the explicit verbal code.Low-context communication can 7 interfacing with a computer. It is a system of explicit prompt and response exchanges. If the computer does not read an 8 response"s programming, then it does not compute. North Americans have a low-context communication style and intend to transmit their messages 9 in words spoken, which are 10 or overridden relatively less than in many other cultures by nonverbal signals such as gestures, silence, eye contact, or ritual.