2. 职称英语
  3. The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabul

The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabul

游客2023-09-11  31
问题     The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger. It is what happens when the familiar psychological cues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and replaced by new ones that are strange or incomprehensible.
    The culture shock phenomenon accounts for much of the bewilderment, frustration, and disorientation that plagues Americans in their dealings with other societies. It causes a breakdown in communication, a misreading of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady, future shock. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow.
    Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to—different conceptions of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else—than cut him off from any hope of retreat to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is doubly severe. Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if—worse yet—its values are incessantly changing, the sense of disorientation will be still further intensified. Given few cues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the redically new circumstances, the victim may well become a hazard to himself and others.
    Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire generation—including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members—suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation, future shock on a grand scale.
    This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are absurdly unprepared to cope with it. [br] Culture shock occurs ______.
选项 A、where one can conduct negotiations for goods of fixed prices.
B、where people express ideas and emotions contrary to what they intend to express
C、when value standards are so different that one is unable to make his own judgment
D、when one loses all hope of returning to his home environment
答案 C
解析 答案应该从第一段中归纳推断出来。如果一个人在一个陌生的地方发现自己原来所在文化中的大多数价值观、道德标准、看法、做法都行不通时(正如第一段举的几个例子)，他就会遇到各种各样的麻烦和迷茫。其余选项中，A项与原文相反，B项在文中没有这么说过，D项在文中提到过但与本题无关。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3005206.html
相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)