首页
登录
职称英语
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
8
管理
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 It is what happens when the familiar psychological cues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and replaced by new ones that are strange or incomprehensible.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] This passage was probably written to ______.
选项
A、warn people of today against what may happen tomorrow
B、prepare travellers for the unfamiliar environments
C、help psychologists understand certain irrational behavior better
D、enable sociologists to predict more accurately what will happen to mankind
答案
A
解析
一般说来主旨题的答案通常应该在短文的开关或者结尾找。这个短文的主旨应该在最后一段中可以推断出来。其余选项不合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3005209.html
相关试题推荐
Sportsaresopopularoncampus______(它们已经成为高等教育不可缺少的一部分).thattheyhavebecom
【S1】[br]【S2】A、popularB、prevalentC、prevailingD、fashionableB形容词辨析。本句的意思是:梦游症
[originaltext]Thereisapopularbeliefamongparentsthatschoolsarenol
[originaltext]Thereisapopularbeliefamongparentsthatschoolsarenol
[originaltext]Yogabecomesverypopularnowadays,butitisimportantthat
[originaltext]Theterm"cultureshock"hasappearedinthepopularvocabula
[originaltext]Theterm"cultureshock"hasappearedinthepopularvocabula
Hisnewcar,_____________________(花了七万元买的),hasalreadyhadtoberepaired.for
Americanculturehasnotbeenimmunetoculturalinfluencesfromoutside.Th
Americanculturehasnotbeenimmunetoculturalinfluencesfromoutside.Th
随机试题
Havingmadehisfirstfilmearlierthisyear,heis______startinginanewmusic
继发性肺结核病的病变特点是()A.病变多从肺尖部开始 B.易由血源播散引起
任何()都有参加有组织的灭火工作的义务。A.人 B.成年人 C.单位
《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010--2020年)》提出,我国教育工作
《素问·厥论》所谓"为胃行其津液"的脏是()A.肝 B.心 C.脾
阻塞性肺气肿的病理分型是A.弥漫型、局限型、混合型 B.间质型、代偿型、局灶型
一住店客人未付房钱即想离开旅馆去车站。旅馆服务员揪住他不让走,并打报警电话。客人
风险-收益气泡图中,()项目通常风险较大,预期效益不好,不值得进行投资和开发。
下列情形中,注册建造师将被处以吊销执业资格证书的情况有( )。A.在执业过程中实
对形状复杂、污垢黏附严重、清洗要求高的装配件,宜采用( )。A.溶剂油 B.清
最新回复
(
0
)