Context Culture

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_context_culture

Do you think we aspies are a high context culture, low context culture or a combo of both?

I have difficulty understanding that it is possible to ONLY be one of either sort, as all is possible in communication.

CubeD, thanks for posting this, it identifies curtural tendancy I've noticed but for which I had no name.

I'd think aspies as a culture would be low context because:
- It's a very new as a culture; being identified so recently. Not enough time to have developed much tradition.
- Aspies are on a wide spectrim; (high context needs high similarity)
- The aspie culture is far flung, mostly only online. Aspie organizations have formed just in the past 2 decades and meet nationally or internationally but not locally; thus contact within the organizations are yearly or quarterly not daily.

I am just extrapolating here.

Low context: it's our literal minds, we need to be more specific, use more words. Even within English-speaking cultures, Aspies are low-context people.