這樣的題目,分析是關鍵。自己的習俗和異國文化習俗是否必然矛盾沖突呢?這是突破點。根據(jù)這個進行分類,進行二分法闡述。如果文化沖突比較顯著,就最好入鄉(xiāng)隨俗,否則可以保持自己的習俗。課堂提問,什么是文化?
預料之中,幾乎沒有人能夠回答出來。因為這些學生回答問題不是通過大腦思考,而是想在自己大腦儲存——他們雖然沒有任何儲存——中搜尋記憶的答案。這是中國學生最顯著的特征。多年教室的蹂躪,早已使得他們完全喪失思考以及說人話的能力。
What is a culture? Although there is no an agreement about the definition of culture, people generally consider it to be the ways people eat, play, dress, drink, think, and work. When one person travels in a foreign country, the foreign culture is not necessarily completely incompatible with his or her native ways. Therefore, it is not always true to do in Rome as a Roman Does.
If one travels in a public culture, that is, where the social order, economic and other relationships between people are maintained by laws rather than by custom or kinship, it is safe for the traveler to do things in his or her own ways,because the public culture welcomes different or even conflicted opinions, people, and ways. Take New York, the big pot, as a typical case in point. In this city everybody has an angle and everyone has the right to do whatever delights him or her in case that it is not illegal.
If one travels in a folk culture, however, it is better to do in Rome as Romans do. A folk culture is a culture featured by clans, kinships, and customs. In a folk culture different ways of doing things are less welcomed. In such a culture, if one keeps his or her own ways of doing things, hardly can he or she be able to enjoy the journey. Worse, the traveler might be in the deep troubled water.
Therefore, whether one must follow the new ways of doing things and whether one must keep the native culture depend on a variety of specificconditions.