【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode2-2/6)

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        文化到底是什么呢？本期主播Marc Beeby会尝试解析这个问题，并且与大家分享为什么给“文化”一个确切的定义会这么困难。一起来听听吧。
       

       

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        Jamaica
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Quite a practical way of looking at culture is to divide it into the three groups: products, behaviours and ideas and in the first group - products - we think about all those things that a culture produces - its architecture and its food and its music and folklore and literature - those are the visible products of a culture.
I would describe my culture, the Indian culture as being extremely vibrant, and diverse, complex, in every aspect - art, literature, folk, the oral tradition. We are really very rich in all aspects.
In the second group we'd find behaviours - that's either verbal behaviours – language, or non-verbal behaviours such as gesture and communication. Also habits, routines, social etiquette, all of these things would come under the heading of behaviour.
Silence in Jamaica is a good thing - it's very much a sign of respect and if you're basically being spoken to - especially by someone that's older than you and so on and you raise your voice and that's being disrespectful.  
And then in the third group we'd find ideas or our world view and all the things that go to make up our world view. So in this group we'd be thinking about things like our attitudes and our beliefs and the way that we organise such things as our societies - are they class based societies, what are the relationships and roles within our societies - between men and women for example.
In Japan, what's supposed to happen is women should follow the men.