【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode7-1/5)
喜欢独处还是群居？你来自哪个文化群体？本期主播Marc Beeby这次会带领我们一起探究这个主题，一起来听听吧。Hints:
Rebecca Fong
Devon Krohn
Emma Kambangula
Namibia
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201303/201303190404248635998.mp3This individual/collective distinction is very important in the study of culture, and we'll be considering it in detail over the next two programmes. So, to begin here's Rebecca Fong, a teacher of intercultural communication at the University of the West of England, with an introduction to the individualism/collectivism dimension
The individualism/collectivism dimension or model, if you like, refers to the relationship between any individual in a society and any group or collective in that society, now what do we mean by collective? A collective could be a small group such as a family or a workplace or a group of friends or a club, or it could be big groups like an individual's relationship to the nation as a whole. Obviously how you are brought up and integrated into your society and live together with the people in your society will very much affect the way that your society's organised, the way families live together, the way institutions work, the way education, politics and religion are organised and so on.
Rebecca Fong. The way you live together with the people in your society will affect the way your society is organised. People in both individualist and collectivist cultures belong to groups, but the difference lies in whether people choose to belong to a group, how they feel about the groups they belong to, and how important and influence the group has on a person's life. Here's Rebecca again, with comments from Devon Krohn from England and Emma Kambangula from Namibia, on the connections between the individual and the group in individualist and collectivist cultures.
In individualist cultures people are linked together very loosely. They are brought up to follow their own individual goals and their own preferences and everyone in the society is rewarded differently according to what they personally manage to achieve. So they'll make choices about which work groups they belong to, who their friends are, which religion they want to belong to, which clubs they want to belong to and so on. This may mean that people don't have very much loyalty to any particular group, so they could switch company, for example, if they felt that their personal growth in one particular company had come to an end and in order to develop they would have to move to another company and do something different.
I think in terms of whether Britain is a very individualistic society I would agree. My family
for example is very separate, it works well as a family unit but I'd say first and foremost we are individuals and then we are a family unit. My mother brought me up to be very individual and she deemed that as a very important quality in life, so from a very early age I was taught to look after myself and to go out and do my own things, take initiatives and do what I wanted to do.
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