【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode6-1/5)
来自不同文化的人对待时间和空间的态度也会千差万别.跟本期主播Marc Beeby一起来开开眼界吧。Hints:
Ana Baltazar
Rebecca Fong
Dr Rajni Badlani
Eilidh Hamilton
Ramadan
Hanukkah
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201303/201303090934048594208.mp3Today, we're going to be hearing about two less obvious, but still very important ways that cultures can vary: our different attitudes to time and to space. We begin in Brazil, with Ana Baltazar.
In the case of the Brazilian Indians I believe that the question of time and space is completely related. They build their houses in a very particular way, completely related to time, to the position of the sun and things like that. And this thing of time is not like our time today—like every minute really matters, but for them it's like longer time but they are completely aware of it—and they are kind of really using time but in a more patient way, I believe.
As Ana Baltazar says, for Brazilian Indians, time and space are closely related. In fact, although we may not be aware of it, time and space are closely related concepts for all of us. We'll be looking at this idea in more detail later in the programme. But, first things first. Here's Rebecca Fong, a teacher of intercultural communication at the University of the West of England, Dr Rajni Badlani from India, and Eilidh Hamilton, who spent several years in the Middle East, talking about time and how we like to organise it.
The way we package the notion of time is important. In order to describe it and manage it we divide it up into manageable periods, so there are days and years and seasons and weeks and so on, but we also divide it up into periods of time that are cultural so we can have periods between festivals or the periods of festivals such as Ramadan or Easter or Hanukkah . We also divide it into individual time so we have the periods between birthdays or when our first children or our second children are born. Time also has depth, by which I mean history, so that countries like America or Australia are modern or young in terms of history whereas cultures such as China and Arab cultures have histories that last for thousands of years. So time has meaning to us as individuals but it also has meaning to us as cultures.
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