Naoko's american friends sometimes get frustrated with her because she prefers to use subtle clues to communicate that she disagrees or is uncomfortable in a particular conversation. what her friends may not realize is that her communication pattern reflects the japanese culture in which naoko was raised.

High context culture

Explanation:

High context refers to cultures that believe in interconnection where family members stay together for a long time because they value family connections. Their life is not about an individual person but about everyone.

These society learn how to associate with each other from birth such that they don't rely in words to understand how they need to interact because they have learnt this from birth.

They depend more on the context than words to express how they feel whereas American culture is a low context culture in which everyone is more expressive of how they feel and they rely more on their words to express how they feel.