谁写issue63啦~互改a~

304483018UID: 2791676

TOPIC: ISSUE63 - "To truly understand your own culture-no matter how you define it-requires personal knowledge of at least one other culture, one that is distinctly different from your own."
WORDS: 389
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-4-6 22:44:15
                       
Do we need to learn detail information about another culture, which is distinctly divergent from our own, to truly understand of our own culture, the speaker asserts so, while I concede that learning another different culture do assists to understand of our own culture, however, it is not a must.

Admittedly, learning another culture can serve good purpose for understanding our own culture, since people can compare the difference between the two cultures and figure out the features of each one. For example, several countries are inviting other countries to concertedly hold cultural activities in their own country in order to emphasize their culture identity, inform the citizen of the essence of their culture and boost the mutual cultural communication. Another merit of learning another culture is that people can see both advantageous and disadvantageous of their culture, which can effectively prevent people from seeing their culture in a biased view since they can get comprehensive and multi-perspective information of their culture. It is also acknowledged to everyone that there is a tendency that every nation regards their culture as the best one, which might be good for forming a strong sense of national pride, but also might mislead people in terms of understand their culture.

However, without knowing about at least one another culture, people can also fully understand their own culture. For example, even small children in china know that our nation has a tradition of respecting elderly people and taking care of small kids. There is a well-known ballad that tells a story happened in ancient time. A seven year-old child, when asked to pick out a pear for himself, he chose the smallest one. People ask him why he choose the smallest one, he says that grandparents who are elder deserve the respect, younger sisters and brothers who are young deserve more care, so he just picked the smallest one in order to leave the big ones to the senior and junior. Trivial as it may seem, but it is the ballad that has educated and will continue to educate millions of new generations.

To conclude, hardly can we assert which one is better to understand our own culture, to learn at least one another different culture or just learn our own culture, since each way has contributed a lot to truly understand our own culture. Only by using both methods, can we truly understand our own culture.

江雪UID: 2790520

1）如果没有把复杂句写对的本事，就多写简单句，用好连接词。

2）要对及物动词、不及物动词，以及词性有更深的了解。不是想怎么用就可以怎么用的。不知道什么是正确的，什么是错误的，写的越多，错的越多，而且错得成习惯了。

虽然说语言是思维的载体，但是语言很糟的话，rater如何理解你的思维呢？

xiao.xinUID: 2682051

我觉得还需要很多联系才行。

304483018UID: 2791676

2# 江雪 看了你的评论,我又重新写了下,请你帮忙改改,大谢~

Whether we need to know about another culture, which is distinctly different from our own, to truly understand our own culture? The speaker asserts so. I concede that learning another culture do assists us to understand our own culture, however, it is not a must.

Admittedly, learning another culture, especially the one which is distinctly different from ours, can make us know our culture better. Culture, broadly speaking, means the values that certain people hold and the ways by which certain people lead their lives. For support examples one need no further to look at this story. Two old ladies encounter in the heaven, one from china and the other one from the United States. The Chinese lady says: I am so poor, I have saved money for a whole life to buy a house. Unfortunately, immediately after bought the new house, I died. Another lady says: I am poor, too. I bought a house in my twenties by borrowing money from the bank. I have paid the money to the bank for my whole life. Unfortunately, immediately after paid all money back, I died. Trivial as this story may seem, it reveals the different attitudes of Chinese and American toward life. Chinese seem to more conservative and modest since they have a culture that people should purchase accord to their limited budget. While Americans seem to pay more attention to enjoy the life. Without knonwing the difference between the American and Chinese, Chinese may not truly understand the concept of conservative in their culture since they may take it for granted.

However, even without learning another culture, we can truly understand our own culture. For example, respecting the senior and taking good care of young are precious tradition of Chinese culture. There is a true story, which happened in ancient China. Kong Rong, a famous educationist, was asked to pick a pear for him when he was seven years old. Surprisingly, he chose the smallest one. When asked why, Kong Rong said: Grandparents are elder than me, so I should respect them and leave the big ones for them, younger brothers and sisters are younger than me, so I should take care of them and leave the big ones for them. This story is very popular in China, even small kids know it. What's more, this story has taught every past generation the culture of respecting the senior and taking good care of young, and it will continue to educate the following generations. Without comparing with and learning another different culture, we can also know the essence values of our culture.

To conclude, I favor the opinion that both ways, be it learning and understanding another different culture or just learning our own culture, can serve good purpose to truly understand our culture.