跨文化交际第二单元 culture的定义

Further reading I Understaning Culture
• All men undergo the same poignant life experiences.
• The biological potentialities of the species are the blocks with which cultures are built. • The factors of nature also limit culture forms.
The essence of the cultural peocess is selectivity. The selection is only
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Culture
A culture is learned by individuals as the results of belonging to
Culture is a convenient abstraction
Culture is a way of thinking, feeling, believing.
Culture
A culture constitutes a storehouse of the pooled learning of the
Culture may be defined as what a society does and thinks ---E. Spair, 1921
Abraham Harold Maslow
• Culture is not a instinct behavior, but learned from parents, teachers, and growing up in it. • What people eat, when they eat, and the manners in which they eat are all patterned by culture. • It is simply that different people do same things in different manners.
Definition
The group of people who share the same ancestery.
Culture as commidties or products such as toys,foods,films,musics……
毛泽东《新民主主义论》三：“一定的文化（当作观念形态的文 化）是一定社会的政治和经济的反映，又给予伟大影响和作用 于一定社会的政治和经济。”
Unit 2
Culture
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Reading I.
Definition
What is culture
The way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time.
Culture arises out of human nature, and its forms are restricted both by man’s biology and by natural laws.
Culture is created and transmitted by people.
A culture constitutes that part of learned behavior which is shared with others.
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Culture regulates our lives at every turn.
Ruth Bnendict
5 basic needs
The needs of: physiological/safety/belongingness/esteerm/self— actualization
Pay attention Most of the time,the different ways that are the customs of different cultures are neither right nor wrong.