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Culture

Ⅰ. The components of a culture
A. material culture
-the concrete, visible parts of a culture
-features of modern material culture in America: soy lattes, CD
burners, running shoes, iPods, etc.
-e.g. jewelry indicating a person’s ______ 1.______
B. ______ culture 2.______
-the intangible aspects of a culture, such as values and beliefs
-shaping who we are and ______ us from others 3.______
-e.g. the different standards of ______ in different cultures 4.______
Ⅱ. The ______ of cultures 5.______
A. a dominant culture
-the ______ of social members 6.______
e.g. white, middle-class, Protestant people of no

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Culture

Ⅰ. The components of a culture
A. material culture
-the concrete, visible parts of a culture
-features of modern material culture in America: soy lattes, CD
burners, running shoes, iPods, etc.
-e.g. jewelry indicating a person’s ______ 1.______
B. ______ culture 2.______
-the intangible aspects of a culture, such as values and beliefs
-shaping who we are and ______ us from others 3.______
-e.g. the different standards of ______ in different cultures 4.______
Ⅱ. The ______ of cultures 5.______
A. a dominant culture
-the ______ of social members 6.______
e.g. white, middle-class, Protestant people of no

[单项选择]
Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.
The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn culture one has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald’s. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences ar
A. All international managers can learn culture.
B. Business diversity is not necessary.
C. Views differ on how to treat culture in business world.
D. Most people do not know foreign culture well.

[单项选择] Culture, Language and Equality
Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, belief and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped form of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind the Weste
A. American Indian languages are not backward
B. “backward” languages are borrowing from other languages
C. “backward” languages may possess quite complicated vocabularies
D. Western languages may also borrow from “backward” languages