Unit Three-02: Cultural Diversity,Unit3-01,2,2020/9/28,Goals :,1.To understand different lands , different friendships. 2.Comparing and contrasting cultures. 3. To understand American Friendship,Unit 3 Intercultural Communication,Unit3-01,3,2020/9/28,Reading I.,Questions 1. Why does Jackson say that Mr. Zhao has asked too much? 2. What do you think of the relationship between Mr. Qian and Mr. Zhao? Are they really good friends?,Unit3-01,4,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,1. What kind of friends do you expect to have in your life? 2. Do you think friendship means the same all over the world?,Unit3-01,5,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,1. Why is it comparatively easy to make friends in the United States? 2. Do people from different countries usually have different expectations about what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being?,Unit3-01,6,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,4. In what country does friendship have much to do with ones family? And in what country does it not? 5. What is friendship like when it is compartmentalized? 6. What are friendships usually based on in England?,Unit3-01,7,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,7. Do you think friendship shares some common elements in different cultures? If you do, what are they? 8. What do you think is the typical Chinese concept of friendship? Is it similar to or different from any of the Western friendships?,Unit3-01,8,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,1. Why is it comparatively easy to make friends in the United States? Because few Americans stay put for a lifetime. With each move, forming new friendship becomes a necessity and part of their new life.,Unit3-01,9,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,2. Do people from different countries usually have different expectations about what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being? Yes. The difficulty for strangers from two countries to become friends lies in their different expectations about what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being.,Unit3-01,10,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,3. How is friendship in America different from friendship in West Europe? In West Europe, friendship is quite sharply distinguished from other more casual relationships, is usually more particularized and carries a heavier burden of commitment, while in America the word friend can be applied to a wide range of relationship and a friendship may be superficial, casual, situational or deep and enduring.,Unit3-01,11,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,4. In what country does friendship have much to do with ones family? And in what country does it not? In Germany, friendship has much to do with ones family as friends are usually brought into the family, while in France it is not the case, for instance, two men may have been friends for a long time without knowing each others personal life.,Unit3-01,12,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,5. What is friendship like when it is compartmentalized? For instance, a man may play chess with a friend for thirty years without knowing his political opinions, or he may talk politics with him for as 10ng a time without knowing about his personal life. Different friends fill different niches in each persons life.,Unit3-01,13,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,6. What are friendships usually based on in England? English friendships are based on shared activities. Activities at different stages of life may be very different. In the midst of the activity, whatever it may be, people fall into steps and find that the E participate in the activity with the same easy anticipation of what each will do day by day or in some critical situation.,Unit3-01,14,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,7. Do you think friendship shares some common elements in different cultures? If you do, what are they? Yes. There is the recognition that friendship, in contrast with kinship, is a matter of free choice. A friend is someone who chooses and is chosen. Related to this is the sense each friend gives the other of being a special individual, on whatever grounds this recognition is based. And between friends there is inevitably equality of give-and-take.,Unit3-01,15,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,8. What do you think is the typical Chinese concept of friendship? Is it similar to or different from any of the Western friendships? It seems that the typical Chinese concept of friendship lays great emphasis on personal loyalty and also has much to do with family. It may be similar to German friendship to some extent and quite different from other Western friendships.,Unit3-01,16,2020/9/28,Reading I. Different lands , different friendships.,When making friends with Americans