课前任务单：

1、课前阅读新世纪大学英语第三册Unit 8 Text A课文，了解课文大意。

可以看纸质版书（应该有书）。如果没有，看下面的电子版PPT，lecture notes里面都有课文和译文。可下载。

2、Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. 

看课文回答问题

1) What causes culture shock according to the author? 

2) How does an individual feel when he or she enters a strange culture? 

3) How do people react to the frustration and anxiety caused by culture shock?

4) What is the relationship between culture and the individual? 

5) What is ethnocentrism and what characterizes it?

6) What can we do to get over culture shock as quickly as possible?

3 看两个视频 回答问题。

Video 1

观看下面这个视频，看完用自己的话解释什么是集体主义和个人主义。

Watch this video. Explain what individualism and collectivism are with your own words.

Cultural Dimension: me or we

“Some cultures focus on the individual as a unique, independent person, properly operating for his or her own benefit. Others focus primarily on the group, assuming that the group's well-being comes first, and the individual is expected to conform to the group's needs.”

资料来源 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7aWKXB5J4

Video 2: 

Watch this video. Explain what ethnocentrism is and its influence.

看完视频解释什么是“民族优越感”。

Ethnocentrism

“Ethnocentrism is the view that one's own culture is better than anyone else's culture. As a practice, it consists of evaluating other cultures from the perspective of one's own. William Graham Sumner coined the term ethnocentrism in 1906; today many sociologists identify ethnocentrism as a feature of all cultures. Some social scientists argue that ethnocentrism can lead to a biased understanding of other cultures. For example, a researcher whose culture believes that God mandates having large families might regard another culture's birth control practices as immoral, thereby failing to understand that culture's reasons for birth control (to conserve limited resources, say). Ethnocentrism has sometimes led to conflict. For example, in the United States government institutions once often suppressed traditional cultural practices of American Indians.”

If you find it difficult to understand this video, you can refer to the following text.

资料来源 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Y8LuQRamE

2020年北京建筑大学跨文化大赛视频（获得北京市二等奖），版权所有，请勿传播。供大家参考创作情景剧。