首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action, that we never recognize the assumptions on which t
Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action, that we never recognize the assumptions on which t
admin
2010-05-25
82
问题
Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action, that we never recognize the assumptions on which their lives and their sanity rest. As one observer put it, if birds were suddenly endowed with scientific curiosity they might examine many things, but the sky itself would be overlooked as a suitable subject; if fish were to become curious about the world, it would never occur to them to begin by investigating water. For birds and fish would take the sky and sea for granted, unaware of their profound influence because they comprise the medium for every fact. Human beings, in a similarly way, occupy a symbolic universe governed by codes that are unconsciously acquired and automatically employed. So much so that they rarely notice that the ways they interpret and talk about events are distinctively different from the ways people conduct their affairs in other cultures.
As long as people remain blind to the sources of their meanings, they are imprisoned within them. These cultural frames of reference are no less confining simply because they cannot be seen or touched. Whether it is an individual neurosis that keeps an individual out of contact with his neighbors, or a collective neurosis that separates neighbors of different cultures, both are forms of blindness that limit what can be experienced and what can be learned from others.
It would seem that everywhere people would desire to break out of the boundaries of their own experiential worlds. Their ability to react sensitively to a wider spectrum of events and peoples requires an overcoming of such cultural parochialism. But, in fact, few attain this broader vision. Some, of course, have little opportunity for wider cultural experience, though this condition should change as the movement of people accelerates. Others do not try to widen their experience because they prefer the old and familiar, seek from their affairs only further confirmation of the correctness of their own values. Still others recoil from such experiences because they feel it dangerous to probe too deeply into the personal or cultural unconscious. Exposure may reveal how tenuous and arbitrary many cultural norms are; such exposure might force people to acquire new bases for interpreting events. And even for the many who do seek actively to enlarge the variety of human beings with whom they are capable of communicating there are still difficulties.
Cultural myopia persists not merely because of inertia and habit, but chiefly because it is so difficult to overcome. One acquires a personality and a culture in childhood, long before he is capable of comprehending either of them. To survive, each person masters the perceptual orientations, cognitive biases, and communicative habits of his own culture. But once mastered, objective assessment of these same processes is awkward since the same mechanisms that are being evaluated must be used in making the evaluations.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
选项
A、Individual and collective neurosis might prevent communications with others.
B、People in different cultures may be governed by the same cultural norms.
C、People’s visions will be enlarged if only they knew that cultural differences exist.
D、If cultural norms are something tangible, they won’t be so confining.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。选项B 违反原文意思;参考上一题的解析,人们即使知道文化差异存在,有的人也不愿意打破固有模式,排除C ;选项D 可以根据第二段第二句These…are no less confining simply because they cannot be seen or touched(这些文化参照体系并不因为他们看不见摸不着而降低其限制性),予以排除;根据第二段第三句对于individual neurosis和collective neurosis的分析, both…limit what can be experienced and what can be learned from others可以选择答案A 。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/6f2K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
OfficeworkersBobKearnsandHelenBellwerebothupsetbytheboss’snews.Theyhadjustbeentoldthenewsthat,despiteearl
Thetaskofbeingacceptedandenrolledinauniversitybeginsearlyforsomestudents.Long【C1】______theygraduatefromhighs
Thefitnessmovementthatbeganinthelate1960sandearly1970scenteredaroundaerobicexercise.Millionsofindividualsbeca
Idon’tthinkitadvisablethatMark______totheresearchworksincehehasnopracticalexperienceinthisfield.
Whyisthemannotreallysurprisedthathisparentsaremoving?
StaggeringtasksconfrontedthepeopleoftheUnitedStates,NorthandSouth,whentheCivilWarended.Aboutamillionandaha
Whatisthelatestproblemfacingpeoplewhodrivetoschool?
AccordingtoMr.Annan,whatmaybeasourceofproblemsfacingtheworld?
ShortStoriesMostpeopleprefershortstoriestonovels.Magazines,newspapersandbooks,printedinmillionsofcopieseve
I______himthebirthdaypresentbymailbecausehewentbackonabusinesstripthatday.
随机试题
《民法典》第574条第2款规定:“债权人领取提存物的权利,自提存之日起五年内不行使而消灭,提存物扣除提存费用后归国家所有。但是,债权人未履行对债务人的到期债务,或者债权人向提存部门书面表示放弃领取提存物权利的,债务人负担提存费用后有权取回提存物。”该五年期
A.间歇性跛行B.静息痛C.肢体营养障碍D.下肢水肿E.红肿条索血栓性深静脉炎的主要症状是
有权对特别行政区基本法提案修改的主体包括:()
()是指会计人员对自己所做的会计工作要进行自我批评、自我解剖
巴拉圭茶
中国证监会对保荐机构、保荐代表人进行注册登记管理。()
人道毁灭(Animaleuthanasia)是对那些身缠疾病或生存极其痛苦的动物,以最低的受痛苦程度,把动物生命“人为地结束”,“euthanasia”源于希腊文,有“好的死亡”或“无痛苦的死亡”的含意,因此也有人译为动物安乐死。基于道德尊重的原因,人道
下图中的立体图形①是由立体图形②、③和④组合而成,下列哪一项能够填入问号处?
一份最近的报告确定,尽管在马里兰州的高速公路上驾驶的司机只有3%为其汽车装备了雷达探测器,而因超速被开罚单的汽车中却有33%以上装备了雷达探测器。显然,在车上装备了雷达探测器的司机比没有这么做的司机更有可能经常超速。以上得出的结论依据下面哪个假设?
下列各存储器中,存取速度最快的是_______。
最新回复
(
0
)