【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode2-3/6)

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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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Edward T Hall
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As we've just heard, cultures change. Even so, we could get a good idea of what a culture is like by looking at the things that people produce, the way they behave, and the way they see the world. But perhaps a better definition of what a culture is was first devised more than forty years ago by the North American anthropologist Edward T Hall.
One of the most famous definitions comes from Edward T Hall who was one of the founding fathers of the field of intercultural communication if you like and Hall's definition suggests that culture is the sum total of the way of life of a people. That's a nice definition because it includes all of the things that we've been talking about and probably all of the ideas that you or I could come up would be contained under that umbrella definition. Culture is the sum total of the way of life of a people.
Hall's definition captures a complex problem very neatly. But he went further. He also gave a very good reason for why we find it so difficult to say what culture is. It's because the culture we grow up in seems so normal that we don't even notice it's there.