跨文化交际全部答案
参考资料
Unit 1 Communication Across Cultures
Reading I
Intercultural Communication：An Introduction
Comprehension questions
1. Is it still often the ca that “everyone?s quick to blame the alien”in the contemporary world?
跃然纸上的意思
This is still powerful in today…s social and political rhetoric. For instance, it is not uncommon in today…s society to hear people say that most, if not all, of the social and economic problems are caud by minorities and immigrants.
皇柝2. What?s the difference between today?s intercultural contact and that of any time in the past?洗衣服
Today…s intercultural encounters are far more numerous and of greater importance than in any time in history.
3. What have made intercultural contact a very common phenomenon in our life today?
New technology, in the form of transportation and communication systems, has accelerated intercultural contact; innovative communication systems have encouraged and facilitated cultural interaction; globalization of the economy has brought people together; changes in immigration patterns have also contributed to intercultural encounter.
4. How do you understand the ntence “culture is everything and everywhere”?
Culture supplies us with the answers to questions about what the world looks like and how we live and communicate within that world. Culture teaches us how to behave in our
刘汉的后台life from the instant of birth. It is omniprent.
5. What are the major elements that directly influence our perception and communication?
The three major socio-cultural elements that directly influence perception and communication are cultural values, worldview (religion), and social organizations (family and state).
6. What does one?s family teach him or her while he or she grows up in it?
The family teaches the child what the world looks like and his or her place in that world.
7. Why is it impossible to parate our u of language from our culture?
Becau language is not only a form of prerving culture but also a means of sharing culture. Language is an organized, generally agreed-upon, learned symbol system that is ud to reprent the experiences within a cultural community.
8. What are the nonverbal behaviors that people can attach meaning to?
法制科People can attach meaning to nonverbal behaviors such as gestures, postures, facial expressions, eye contact and gaze, touch, etc.
9. How can a free, culturally diver society exist?
A free, culturally diver society can exist only if diversity is permitted to flourish without
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prejudice and discrimination, both of which harm all members of the society.
Reading II
The Challenge of Globalization摄影英文
Comprehension questions
1. Why does the author say that our understanding of the world has changed?
闺蜜测试题
Many things, such as political changes and technological advances, have changed the world very rapidly. In the past most human beings were born, lived, and died within a limited geographical area, never encountering people of other cultural backgrounds. Such an existence, however, no longer prevails in the world. Thus, all people are faced with the challenge of understanding this changed and still fast changing world in which we live.
2. What a “global village”is like?
游泳安全As our world shrinks and its inhabitants become interdependent, people from remote cultures increasingly come into contact on a daily basis. In a ―global village‖, members of once isolated groups of people have to communicate with members of other cultural groups. Tho people may live thousands of miles away or right next door to each other.
3. What is considered as the major driving force of the post-1945 globalization?
Technology, particularly telecommunications and computers are considered to be the major driving force.
4. What does the author mean by saying that “the …global?may be more local than the …local?”?
The increasing global mobility of people and the impact of new electronic media on human communications make the world em smaller. We may communicate more with people of other countries than with our neighbors, and we may be more informed of the international events than of the
local events. In this n, ―the ?global…may be more local than the ?local…‖.
5. Why is it important for businesspeople to know diver cultures in the world?
Effective communication may be the most important competitive advantage that firms have to meet diver customer needs on a global basis. Succeeding in the global market today requires the ability to communicate nsitively with people from other cultures, a nsitivity that is bad on an understanding of cross-cultural differences.
6. What are the rious problems that countries throughout the world are confronted with?
Countries throughout the world are confronted with rious problems such as volatile international economy, shrinking resources, mounting environmental contamination, and epidemics that know no boundaries.
7. What implications can we draw from the ca of Michael Fay?
