discussion.
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About your final score
Your daily attendance and performance will account for 20 percent of your final score
Your performance in the final examination will account for 80 percent
B：…… 您老高寿?
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What is your understandingHale Waihona Puke of these sentences？
Try to analyze them. Suppose yourself were an American, what
would be your understanding? Why？
3. To acquire some skills to communicate with people from other cultures
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Requirements
To take this course, you are required: 1. to attend the class regularly 2. to preview the teaching content 3. to review the teaching content 4. to take an active part in the classroom
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Reference books
Larry A. Samovar Communication between cultures.2000 常俊跃，吕春媚. 跨文化交际.北京大学出版社.2011 顾曰国.跨文化交际.外语教学与研究出版社.2000 胡文仲. 文化与交际.外语教学与研究出版社.1994 宋莉.跨文化交际导论.哈尔滨工业大学出版社.2002
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中国学者将文化分成三个层次：1） 物质文化， 它是通过人们制作的各种实物产品表现出来的， 包括建筑物、服饰、食品、用品、工具等；
2） 制度、习俗文化，它是通过人们共同遵守的 社会规范和行为准则表现出来的，包括制度、法 规、以及相应的设施和风俗习惯等；3） 精神文 化，它是通过人们的思维活动所形成和表现出来 的，包括价值观念、思维方式、审美趣味、道德 情操、宗教信仰、也包括哲学、科学和文学艺术 方面的成就和产品。（戚雨村，1994）
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Chapter Aim
After this chapter, we will be able 1. to know the key concepts in intercultural communication 2. to know the relations between communication and culture 3. to get a general understanding of intercultural communication
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What is culture
I. Culture Culture is ubiquitous, multidimensional,
complex, and all pervasive. As early as 1952, Krober and Kluckhohn listed 164 definitions of culture that they found in the anthropology literature. Definitions of culture range from allencompassing ones (it is everything), to narrower ones (it is opera, art and ballet).
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Culture is a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of a society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that they are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.
Chapter One: An introduction to Intercultural Communication
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Aims of this Course
1. To get a general understanding of Intercultural Communication
2. To form an open mind and be tolerant of other cultural patterns other than one’s own.
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Think about the following incidents
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中新网11月4日电 据美国《侨报》报道， 近日网上传出美国蒙特利公园市一名华裔 妇女带着一名穿着开裆裤的小孩在公园散 步，结果被白人女子报警，当警方了解到 孩子穿开裆裤是为了随地大小便时，简直 不敢相信自己的耳朵。
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What is your opinion of these two incidents?
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Two related definitions
Culture is “an integrated system of learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are not the result of biological inheritance.” (Hoebel and Frost, 1993)
Try to support you ideas.
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Think about the following Sentence
Good Morning!/Good night!/Good Evening! 老师好！ I love you ! A: Your house is really beautiful!