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Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural
Clash
The Second Two Periods
Designed by Sun Yanmin
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Teaching procedures:
Lead in
Read in
• Lead in :
I. Leading Questions
Example on the east-west cultural clash
Chinese people like to ask such following questions as “Where are you from?” “Where do you work?” “How much do you earn?”. While western people consider these questions be impolite.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Lead in
1. Culture Shock
2. Individualism & Collectivism
3. Topic-related Words and Phrases
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Culture Shock
The term culture shock is used to describe emotional and physical discomfort a person suffers when moving to a completely new environment. Individuals often experience a lack of direction, a feeling of not knowing what to do or how to handle things, how to react and of not knowing what is inappropriate. Culture shock is a natural and human response to new cultural experiences. There are several typical stages of cultural adaptation that students go through when learning to adapt to a new culture. The length of each stage varies for the individual, and often people move back and forth among the first three stages.
unit9 Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Culture Shock
1. Initial Euphoria and Enthusiasm.This stage can be described by feelings of excitement and wonderment about the new culture. Everything about the culture is perceived to be great and wonderful by the individual.
unit9 Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
2. Irritability and Hostility.
This stage is the period in which people experience culture shock. Everything is seen as different and at least weird if not bad. Things do not feel quite right. Symptoms of culture shock become evident. Symptoms can include: homesickness, boredom, withdrawal or spending time exclusively with people of your own nationality, excessive sleeping, stereotyping others, and physical maladies.
unit9 Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
3.Gradual Adjustment.
This stage begins when we start to
perceive different ways of behaving or
thinking in order to feel more
comfortable in the host culture. 4.Adaptation.
This final stage occurs when the
individual can appreciate, value, and
live in both the home and the new
culture.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Individualism & Collectivism
Individualism and collectivism are conflicting views of the nature of humans, society and the relationship between them. Individualism holds that individual is the primary unit of reality and the ultimate standard of value. It sees society as a collection of individuals, not something over and above them. The individual is the unit of achievement.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Collectivism, on the other hand, holds that the group — the nation, the community, the proletariat, the race, etc. — is the primary unit of reality and the ultimate standard of value. One’s identity is determined by the groups one interacts with. One’s identity is constituted essentially of relationships with others.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Topic-related Words and Phrases
Counterculture: a way of life and a set of ideas that are completely different from those accepted by most of society, or the group of people who live this wayCustoms house:
The night view of Shanghai (The clock tower on the left is Shanghai Customs House.)
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Topic-related Words and Phrases
Customs officer:
a person whose job is to look inside travelers’ bags to make certain they are not taking goods into a country without paying taxes
Duty-free:
Duty-free goods are luxury goods bought in special shops at an airport, on an international ship, etc., on which you do not pay government tax.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Topic-related Words and PhrasesPassport:
an official document containing personal information and usually a photograph which allows a person to travel to foreign countries and to prove who they areVisa:
an official endorsement in a passport authorizing the bearer to enter or leave, and travel in or through, a particular country or region
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Text Study
1. Global Reading
2. Detailed Reading
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Global Reading
1.Questions and Answers
2.Text Analysis
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Questions and AnswersDirections: Skim the paragraphs for answers to the following questions.
Paragraphs 1 - 3
Question: Why did the young Chinese tourist leave the café unhappily?Answer:
He asked twice for more hot water and put the saucer on the cup to keep the tea warm. However, his request was misunderstood by the waiter.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Paragraphs 4—5
Question: What caused the unhappy tea incident?Answer:The misunderstanding of
different manners in different customs caused the unhappy incident.
Paragraph 6Question:Why do westerners often
complain that the Chinese are noisy and impolite?Answer:Because the Chinese like to ask some personal questions to start a conversation. Those questions often make westerners uncomfortable.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Paragraph 7
Question: Why did the author feel lonely during his stay in Europe?
Answer: Because he felt that the westerners were indifferent to each other.Question:What miracle did he pray for?
Answer:He wanted his classmates to ask him questions about his personal life so that he could narrow the distance between him and others.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Paragraph 8
Question: How did the author break the ice?Answer:He first let his audience know
his intention of building confidence and then he slowly challenged his audience with some personal questions.Paragraphs 9
—10Question: What is the feature of Chinese culture?Answer:Chinese culture is founded on
collectivism and personal questions are regarded
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Paragraph 11
Question:What is the feature of Western culture?
Answer:It is founded on individualism and personal questions are considered to be impolite.
Paragraph 12
Question:What does the last paragraph tell us?
Answer:It tells us that asking questions or keeping silent could either be regarded as polite or impolite, depending on the circumstances.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Text Analysis
1-3
4-5
6
Para
Main Ideas
Instance of cultural clash: a young Chinese tourist’s unhappy experience of a tea service at a café in Paris.
Another instance of such cultural clash: westerns in China think frequent private questions
Cause of this clash: the Chinese tourist and the French waiter misunderstood the customs in the East and the West.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Text Analysis
7-8
9-10
11
12
Author’s experience with his Western students of Chinese.
Features of Chinese culture: it is based on collectivism and personal questions are a way of showing concern and friendliness. Feature of Western culture: it is founded on individualism and communication through personal question is considered impolite. Importance of circumstances: depending on circumstances, either intrusive questions or a perfunctory hello should be all right.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Detailed reading
1.clash v. 1) fight or argue 冲突e.g.• Students clashed with police after demonstrations at five universities.• The government and the opposition parties have clashed over the cuts in defense spending.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
2. top up: add more liquid to a container that is partly full 添加,添满
e.g.
He motioned the waiter to top up his glass.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
3. stingy adj. not generous, very mean 小气的
e.g. You may never get money from Tom. He is very stingy.
Related words:
miserly, generous, mean
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
4. displeasure n. displeased feeling; dissatisfaction; e.g.
• The girl’s rash behavior incurred the displeasure of the boss.
Extended words:
displease, pleasure, pleasant, unpleasant
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
5. reluctant adj. unwilling and therefore slow to co-operate, agree, etc.
不情愿的;勉强的e.g.
• The little boy was reluctant to leave
the toy store.
• The old lady was very reluctant to
agree to be operated on by a young
surgeon.
• She was very reluctant to admit the
truth.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
6. steam v. give off steam when very hot; travel by steam power; cook by allowing steam to heat
放出蒸汽;冒水汽 e.g.
He got very steamed up about it.
Related words:let off steam (发泄过多的精力);get up steam (开始启动);under one’s/ its own steam (凭自己的努力)
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
7. misinterpret v. give wrong explanations
误释,误解
e.g.
• The driver misinterpreted the policeman’s signal and turned in the wrong direction. • The boy misinterpret the teacher’s meaning.Extended words:
interpretable, interpreter, interpretive
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
8. occur v. 1) (especially of accidents and other
unexpected events) happene.g. An accident involving over ten vehicles
has occurred in the eastbound lane.
e.g. If any of these symptoms occur while you are taking the medicine, consult your doctor immediately.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
• suffer v. • 1) experience physical or mental pain 遭受,经历,忍受
e.g. I think he suffered quite a lot when his wife left him.
e.g. She’s been suffering from (= been ill with) cancer for two years.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
2) experience or show the effects of something bad 遭受(磨难)e.g. The Democrats suffered a crushing
defeat in the last election.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash
Assignments 1.Read the new words and learn them
by heart, next time we’ll have a dictation.
2.Read the text n detail, try to find the difficulties of structures, sentences, or words, next time we may have a discussion about them.
3.Finish the rest exercises.
Unit Nine Misunderstanding Means East-West Cultural Clash