In the more informal and low-context culture of United States, closer physical contact and more intimate exchanging of personal information is accepted between strangers. If individuals violate these rules of symbolic communication -- for example, if a Japanese subordinate playfully jokes with his or her boss, or a person in an American office never volunteers personal information about his or her personal life, that person may be viewed as possibly 'suspect' or strange.

Although culture may be occasionally viewed simply as "the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through...

Symbolic language and group ideals can change. Culture is constantly in flux. As individuals from the West and East gain a greater knowledge of differences between low-context and high-context cultures, they can become more symbolically 'fluent' when engaging in cultural exchanges. The exchange of knowledge can create greater respect between cultures, and individuals in the global economy have slowly begun to be more astute about cultural differences by virtue of necessity.
Works Cited

Choudhury. "Culture." January 8, 2009. http://www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html