【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode1-4/5)

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本期主题是异域文化和跨文化交流。主播Marc Beeby认为，更多的了解不同的文化会帮助我们更加认识和了解自己。一起来听听吧

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全文听写We all grow up inside our own cultures and what this means is that we assume without thinking a number of different values, attitudes, beliefs, ways of doing things, ways of saying things which come to us naturally - but the way we do things isn't necessarily the same as the way people in other cultures do them and it's not until something goes wrong that you're going to realise that the way someone else does something is different from the way that you do it.
When I first went to England I was absolutely, absolutely shocked. There were three of us, two of us were Indians and there was one English person, who whilst he was talking, and you know, right in the middle of the conversation he takes out a banana, peels it and starts eating it. And there he's peeling this, you know, banana and eating it without even saying excuse me or whatever. We except to be offered. That is something which is culturally very different.
When there's a cultural misunderstanding like this, the temptation can be to think "Well, they've got a stupid way of doing it - why don't they do it like we do it" and you find that your standards become the standards by which you judge everyone else. And this can be very dangerous and lead to a lot of conflict.