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
We come in different colors: red, black, white, yellow and brown, have a variety of political systems, social systems, religious
We come in different colors: red, black, white, yellow and brown, have a variety of political systems, social systems, religious
admin
2014-07-25
54
问题
We come in different colors: red, black, white, yellow and brown, have a variety of political systems, social systems, religious views or none at all; we are different intellectually, have different educational systems, different socio-economic classes; psychologically we are normal, abnormal, neurotic, psychotic, we speak different languages, and have different customs and costumes.
Studying human beings biologically and physiologically leads us to very different conclusions about how alike or different we are from each other. Very different indeed, every human being on the planet, all 5.3 billion of us, has the same number of bones, of the same type, serving the same purposes; each of us has 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent, and these chromosomes, genes and the DNA and RNA of which they are integral parts, are in every single human being; every cell, every membrane, every tissue, and every organ is the same everywhere. We all have a heart, a circulatory system, 2 lungs, a liver, 2 kidneys, a brain and nervous system, a reproductive system, digestive and excretory systems, musculature, in short, we are the same biologically and our bodies perform the same functions everywhere on the planet. And as we learned in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, if you prick us, any of us, "do we not bleed"? Of course we do, and we bleed red blood no matter what the color of our skin, or the language we speak, the clothing we wear, the gods we worship, or our geographical home. Man is of a piece biologically; all equally effective organisms whether Amazon Indian, Australian aborigine, Parisian artist, Greek sailor, Chinese student, American astronaut, Russian soldier, or Palestinian citizen.
Well then, you ask, how is that so many groups of people disparage other groups, persecute them, and claim superiority over them? Why is it that some groups of people still hunt animals, wear little or no clothing, have little or no technology, while others are very sophisticated in their technology, industry, transportation, communication, food gathering and storage? It is, of course, a matter of culture and the civilization that emerges and evolves from it. Though man is man everywhere, where he lives, when he lives there, with whom he lives there, all affect how he lives: that is, what he believes, what he wears, his customs, his gods, his rituals, his myths and literature, his language and his institutions. These are man-made artifacts that each group develops over time, living together, facing the same problems, needing and desiring the same things. They are his culture, his identity.
The interactions of two powerful forces in all human life: nature (biology) and nurture (culture and civilization), shape us. Each culture has its own distinctive ways of seeing, feeling, thinking, speaking, believing, and just as no two humans are identical in all respects, so no two cultures are identical in all respects. But, wherever humans have lived and live today, there is culture with all of its elements embedded in a civilization that expresses that core of thought and feeling in its language, its institutions and other social organizations. All civilizations and the cultures that nourish them have hierarchies, social institutions, language, art of all kinds, religion or a system of spiritual beliefs of some kind, laws, customs, rituals (other than religious) and ceremonies.
A study of anthropology and make it very clear that humans have created divisions and exacerbated superficial external difference for their own ulterior purposes whether political, social, economic or religious. The truth is that we are much more alike in very basic ways than we are different. If you wear one type of garment and I wear another, we both wear some kind of garment. Our culture demands it. If you speak one language and I another, we both speak so that others will understand us; we must communicate with each other. Nothing is gained by overemphasizing differences, but much is lost, If we understood our differences as cultural variations of our basic, universal humanity it could restore sanity and peace to this often turbulent world. Muslims and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Serbs and Croats, blacks and whites, we are all human and need the same things to survive and to thrive.
Different does not mean inferior or superior; it does not mean better or worse; right or wrong. It means only that artificial distinctions have been made by society, and these have denied our universal humanity that is cell deep and incontrovertible. Differences produce variety of thought, feeling, and action and that can be very stimulating to peaceful and creative solutions to human problems.
Can we accept our biological brotherhood and put aside our man-made, artificial, cultural enmities? What men have made, their culture and civilizations, men can unmake, can improve. What would be gained if we did that? What would be lost?
The best title for this passage could be ______.
选项
A、Every One Is Created Equal
B、Culture And Civilization
C、Human Differences
D、Cultural Differences
答案
C
解析
从文章很明显可断定选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/XcpO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
AmericanIndianMovement(AIM)isanorganizationdevotedtopromotingculturalawarenessandpoliticalself-determinationforN
AmericanIndianMovement(AIM)isanorganizationdevotedtopromotingculturalawarenessandpoliticalself-determinationforN
Women’smindsworkdifferentlyfrommen.Atleast,thatiswhat【M1】______mostmenareconvincedof.Psychologistsvi
Women’smindsworkdifferentlyfrommen.Atleast,thatiswhat【M1】______mostmenareconvincedof.Psychologistsvi
Women’smindsworkdifferentlyfrommen.Atleast,thatiswhat【M1】______mostmenareconvincedof.Psychologistsvi
Women’smindsworkdifferentlyfrommen.Atleast,thatiswhat【M1】______mostmenareconvincedof.Psychologistsvi
Onewaytoovercomeregionalvariationandfacilitatethecommunicationbetweenspeakersofdifferentdialectsistoenforce____
随机试题
为12个月龄婴儿设计教养目标及保教内容。
与模拟方法摄影比较,不是数字摄影优势的是
基准地价使用的限制有()。
下列属于中国人民银行职责的有( )。
附着力法则:流行点的引爆有赖于流行信息的有效传播,流行信息的附着力则在很大程度上决定了信息传播的有效性。信息附着力取决于信息与受众之间关联程度的高低和信息实用性的大小,关联度高、实用性大的流行信息具有更强的附着力,成为流行的引爆点。以下做法不符合附着力法
某科研单位共有68名科研人员,其中45人具有硕士以上学历,30人具有高级职称,12人兼而有之。没有高级职称也没有硕士以上学历的科研人员是多少人?()
在下述计划中,()能基于活动范围和项目规模,制定成本估算数据应精确到的程度。
字符A,B,C一次进入一个栈,按出栈的先后顺序组成不同的字符串,至多可以组成多少个不同的字符串?
【S1】【S4】
A、Toliveamorecomfortablelife.B、Togiveperformances.C、Tobeapupilofafamousviolinist.D、Toenterafamousuniversity
最新回复
(
0
)