The Pros And Cons Of Compliment

Compliment is an expression which is used to show praise and admiration to someone. Compliment is also usually used to build better social relationship with others. People has different way to give and respond to the compliment, it depends on norm, value, and beliefe which speard around the sociaty. It can be seen in western culture country like USA and eastern culture country like Indonesia. This two cultures have different view about compliment.
In USA, compliment is always given to someone who has done an admiration action. For examples, teacher who always give a praise to her students by saying, “ You know Tom. You did a good gob.” Then, it also can be said to build and keep a social relation with other, for examples: “That’s a delicious dinner, thanks for having us.” (Yu. 2005). Then, the student might responds by saying “Thank you.” Responding the compliment by saying “Thank you” is the common thing for American people. They like to respond a compliment in positive way to avoid disrespectfull. While in Indonesia, compliment is always given to praise others’ appearence. Based on writer’s observation, this case would happen when someone meets someone else for the first time, they might say, “Dia cantik sekali.”, “Baju nya bagus” and etc. Also, compliment can be a tool to ask something, for example,”Wah, tasnya bagus sekali. Beli dimana?” people migh respond by saying, “Nggak kok ini tas lama, baru di pakai.” Indonesian people prefer to refuse the compliment.
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