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1、40904012Class1 Grade 3马冬冬Intercultural CommunicationTraditions and Customs-when in Roman, do as the Romans do.The current focus of IC is on how people handle differences in linguistic behavior and the various effects. The analyses result in descriptions of culturally specific ways of expressing and
2、interpreting the situated linguistic action of co-participants. With the globalization, various people around the world meet together. They travel together, do business even fall in love. Thats come to the question: how could they get on well with each other under such complex environment? “With Ame
3、ricans, anything goes.” It seems that Americans are quite casual and dont care much about their behaviors. Most American attitudes about good manners relate to showing respect and consideration for others. They believe that all people are entitled to equal opportunity and respect. That is, no one is
4、 privileged, and no one is worthless. A person who acts in a humble and timid way will make his/her friends feel quite uncomfortable. On the other hand, an aggressive and dominating person will have trouble keeping American friends. Most of them dislike coming into physical contact because staring i
5、s considered an invasion of privacy. When meeting people you know, you are expected to greet them briefly and informally by saying “Hi,” “hello,” and even “How are you.” Actually if a person says “How are you” to you, he doesnt want to know about your physical condition, but only want to show his po
6、liteness. This is quite similar to what we Chinese traditionally mean when one is asked “have you eaten yet?” All these inflect the American values, such as individualism, which is the most basic and dominant one, competition, efficiency. “How old are you?” “Where are you going?” “How much do you ea
7、rn?” “How old are you?” all these questions sound rationally to Chinese, it seems that we care about people, so we ask such questions. But for foreigners, these questions seem to be rude to them. Unlike Chinese, they avoid talking about privacy, such as incomes, age and marriage. A mans home is his
8、castle, namely, his privacy cant be impinged. To the elder person, do not say they are old, old means useless in their culture, even though we mean it friendly. By the way, they dont like 13 and Friday for Christ reasons, but we avoid 4 and appreciate 6 and 8 very much. Apart from this, we share som
9、ething together, for example, when greet with others, smile is considered to be the best tool. If you want to make friends with American and British, these suggestions maybe helpful: 1) dont be nosy. People everywhere like to talk about themselves, American are not exception. They enjoy talking abou
10、t themselves very much. 2) Punctuality. Being on time is very important especially in the work place. Being late means you do not value others time, you should apologize if you are late with a valid reason, such as traffic, bad whether and family emergency. 3) Don smoke without permission, in Americ
11、a, many places are divided into smoking and non-smoking areas. Actually, most people dont smoking, especially to the women and children. 4) Dont make ethic errors, dont make any negative comments on any ethnic group.5) Always say thank you, these words are used in almost every social exchange no mat
12、ter what relationship is between two people. Culture is not innate, but learned. As animals, all of us must eat, drink, sleep, find shelter, give and receive affection, and meet all of the other biologic requirements that flesh is heir to. But what we eat when we eat and how we eat are all behaviors
13、 we have learned from the groups in which we have grown up. Not only the language we speak and the way we think, but even what we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell are conditioned by the culture in which we have been raised. As speak to eat, lets come to the custom of table manners in both American
14、s and British. Actually, they are quite the same. American and British use cutlery to eat most of the food. Some food which does not require the use of knife and fork and spoon includes sandwich, crisps and corn ton the cob and fruits. The British people eat in the continental style, with fork in th
15、e left hand and knife in the right hand all the time. There are a number of other Dos and Donts to keep in mind.Do not put ones elbow onto the dinner table while eating;Do not eat while others have not been saved. Everyone should begin to eat at the same time.Do not hold your bowl closer to your mou
16、th.Do not talk with your mouth full.Do not lean down on your plate; just bring the food up to your mouth.Do not use fingernails as toothpicks to pick food out of your mouth. But Americans seldom use toothpicks at the table.Do not use your fork with the prongs pointed while holding a knife in another hand. A fork with prongs pointed up indicates the ending of eating.When you have finished your meal, place your knife and fork side by
