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1、The Cultural Diversity and Cultural Shock of Cross-cultural CommunicationAbstract: Time goes by. With the innovation of technology and the rapid development of productivity under the current of the economic globalization, the connection between people is near and near, as well as country. Therefore,
2、 people in different nations are more closely interdependent to each other and the world is becoming an international family. This paper focus on exploring the cultural diversity and cultural shock of cross-cultural communication under globalization through the comparison and analysis of the cultura
3、l differences between the different countries in two films.Keywords: cross-cultural communication;cultural diversity;culture shock Introduction Today, there are over 200 countries and more than 5000 nationalities in this world, among which 10% are minorities. Due to the geographical environment, cli
4、mate, natural conditions and historical background, the way of life, the differences of economic and technology, every country and nationality is different and distinctive.Ethnic diversity inevitably lead to cultural diversity because different countries and regions, ethnic and racial have different
5、 culture. However, cultural shock is caused by cultural differences on the cultural values of contradictions and intense confrontation. Culture Shock refers to the cultural differences and not adapt to the huge loss and psychological imbalance caused by the culture. Therefore, if people do not know
6、these cultural differences, people will hinder effective communication between different ethnic groups and close contacts, which is not conducive to human prosperity and harmonious development. With the rapid development of the world economy and frequent contacts between different countries, cross-c
7、ultural communication is getting more and more important. In order to the harmonious development of human beings, people must know more cultural diversity and decrease cultural shock to strengthen the understanding and communication between different ethnic groups. 2.The cultural diversity of cross-
8、cultural communication The cultural diversity shows in different regions and countries, in different languages, in distinctive customs, diverse ways of thinking and various faiths and so on. Since each region always has differences in the local history and culture, therefore it has their own unique
9、cultural and history characters of the logical structure. Cultural diversity is the social reality, so our subjective desire can not change it. Everything has its rationality of existence, and people have to accept the truth of its existence. In cross-cultural communication, we cant change the reali
10、ty, so people not only accept and respect other cultures but also need to actively adapt to different cultures.2.1 the Cultural Diversity of Different Language The language, the most important communication tool for human, is the carrier of the human thought. Generally speaking, each nation has its
11、own language.According to Linguistics and Language Communication Tools Handbook published by German says that there are 5651 languages in the world.In these languages, than 1400 languages have not been recognized as an independent language. In Lost in Translation, The host, Bob was invited to Japan
12、for an advertisement of whisky. On the spot for the first time, director from Japan speaking for a long time demanded Bob to turn to camera lens, but the translator told Bob the demand from director just by one sentence-“turn to camera”. The Bob were very confused and said “thats all he said?” and “
13、all right, does he want me tototurn from the right orturn the left?”. Culture is divided into high-context and low-context culture from the angle of communication. Japanese is a high-context culture that everything needs to be understood by specific scenarios; American is a low-context culture count
14、ry that people are used to express themselves directly. Meantime, The Japanese develops a complete system of honorific, called Japanese honorific which refers to respect for the interlocutor. Here, in order to show the politeness, users who use honorific skills have a wide selection of words and exp
15、ressions involving the different levels of language. Sometimes, a simple sentence may have more than 20 expression, which depends on the relative position between the speaker and the talking object. Proper conversation is quite challenging since the relative position relation is determined by the co
16、mplex combination of many factors, such as social status, age, gender and so on. So in cross-cultural communication, knowing other languages is key to get along well with other people.2.2the Cultural Diversity of Distinctive Customs and diverse thinking ways Custom is a specific social culture area and people abide by patterns of
