Putting your foot in another's culture is like entering that person's little world, it is only then when we understand the individual culture that we can become competent communicators (O'Hair, Wiemann , Mullin and Teven, 2015). To understand intercultural communication, we had to choose a cultural context in which we ourselves felt like outsiders or “out-group” members. I chose a Buddhist temple out of my curiosity about this religion and felt it was one of the places where I felt like I was a member of an "out-group". Religion itself has always interested me. Growing up I was raised Catholic by both my parents, but I was never baptized and we weren't really "strict" Catholics. However, recently, in the last year, I have been able to tell that he comes from a high-context culture. He never told me outright that I was wrong and never criticized me. Instead, he was very indirect about it and was verbally vague, which is a factor of a high-context culture (O'Hair, Wiemann, Mullin & Teven, 2015). A high-context culture according to Hall, "uses contextual cues---such as time, place, relationship, and situation---to interpret meaning and send subtle messages" (as cited in O'Hair, Weimann, Mullin, & Teven, 2015 , page 126). I also consider myself a person from a high-context culture. I would never just blatantly disagree with someone and say, “Oh, you're wrong,” or “That's not right,” but I would send subtle messages to indicate that I disagree. Subtle messages like a nod of the head or sometimes even an involuntary facial expression. Since I also come from a low-context culture, I understood the contextual cues and subtle messages that collectivist cultures belonged to, “…more likely they would describe themselves in terms of relationships and social roles (“I'm a good son, brother and friend)” (Cherry, 2016, par.9). Knowing this, I can assume that the person I was communicating with most likely comes from a collectivist culture. He described himself in more collectivism-oriented ways. For example, when I asked him what his religion was, he said, “We are Buddhist.” He said "we are" when he was alone. According to Triandis, “Individuals from collectivist cultures perceive themselves first and foremost as members of a group – and communicate from that perspective” (as cited in O'Hair, Weimann, Mullin, & Teven, 2015, p. 129). He identified himself as a member of a group by describing himself as such when he said “we” instead of “I.” He probably grew up in a collectivist environment. Perhaps his parents come from collectivist cultures and he learned from them