威斯东wisdom
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate")[1] generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that even their creators contest, that lack fixed boundaries, that are constantly in flux, and that interact and compete with one another"[2]Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society."[3] As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the art.Cultural anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity and activities to classify, codify and communicate their experiences materially and symbolically. Scholars have long viewed this capacity as a defining feature of humans (although some primatologists have identified aspects of culture such as learned tool making and use among humankind's closest relatives in the animal kingdom).[4]onflictConflict is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests.culture conflictsis a state of discord caused by the significant patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures.你可以根据以上两点的具体内容来展开评论，并举一些冷战，等等的例子。下面的是一个theory的论文。看看有没有用。 一个文化差异的theory
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矛盾 1.在哲学中：[Philosophy] (a) contradiction 2.contradictory; conflicting; incompatible; discrepant; repugnant 3.to conflict; to contradict; to be at variance (with) -----相关表达：人民内部矛盾：contradictions among the people内部矛盾：inner contradictions种族矛盾：race conflict排解矛盾：resolve a contradictionThis is an irreconcilable conflict. 这是一个不可调和的矛盾。 ======================具体语言环境：1. In the first half of the year, the relations between big countries traveled a tortuous road, showing fairly sharp contradictions. 上半年，大国关系经历了一些曲折，矛盾比较尖锐； 2. In the first place, as everyone knows, China's current level of production of commodity grain and raw materials for industry is low, whereas the state's need for them is growing year by year, and this presents a sharp contradiction. 首先，大家知道，我国的商品粮食和工业原料的生产水平，现在是很低的，而国家对于这些物资的需要却是一年一年地增大，这是一个尖锐的矛盾。 3. In the streets, grimy, perspiring tramps and urchins were hawking the various "Stop-press editions," bawling a bewildering variety of mutually contradictory headlines in an equal variety of voices. 满脸黑汗在这柏油路上喊卖各式各样“快报”的瘪三和小孩子，也用了各式各样的声调高叫着各式各样矛盾的新闻。 4. In the struggle against the various comprador groups it is necessary to exploit the contradictions between imperialist countries, first coping with one of them and striking at the chief immediate enemy. 对买办集团的斗争，要利用帝国主义之间的矛盾，首先对付其中的一个，打击当前最主要的敌人。 5. Their accounts of what happened don't hang together. 他们对于所发生的事的说法互相之间有矛盾. 6. To "have thousands and tens of thousands of people shot"--is this the way to resolve contradictions among the people? “杀几千几万人”，是解决人民内部矛盾的方法吗？ 7. To resolve the contradiction between supply and demand, it is necessary to resolve the contradiction between ownership and the productive forces. 从解决这种供求矛盾出发，就要解决所有制与生产力的矛盾问题。 8. To resolve these contradictions we must pay constant attention to the problems of production and distribution. 我们必须经常注意从生产问题和分配问题上处理上述矛盾。 9. To resolve this contradiction all the principal and important issues must first be discussed and decided on by the Party committee before its decisions are referred to the government for implementation. 为了解决这个矛盾，一切主要的和重要的问题，都要先由党委讨论决定，再由政府执行。 10. We can make use of their contradictions, a lot can be done in this connection. 我们可以利用他们的矛盾，这里很有文章可做。 11. Social development was contradictory. 社会发展是矛盾的。 12. This is an irreconcilaBle conflict. 这是一个不可调和的矛盾。 13. contending passions 矛盾的心情 14. a sea of controversy. 许多矛盾 15. These two assertions do not hang together. 这两种说法互相矛盾。 16. The two of them have fallen out. 他俩闹矛盾了。 17. The facts contradict his theory. 事实与他的理论相矛盾。 18. an argument that simply fails to cohere 前后完全矛盾的论点 19. inconsistent statements. 矛盾的表述 20. the internal contradictions of the theory. 理论本质上的矛盾 21. Life is a contradiction. 人生是矛盾的。 22. It's a contradiction. 那是个矛盾。 23. This contradiction is hushed up. 这个矛盾消除了。 24. The reports contradict each other. 这些报告相互矛盾。 25. Contradiction faces him at every turn. 事事无不矛盾。 26. Motion itself is a contradiction. 运动本身就是矛盾。 27. inconsistent equation 矛盾方程 28. You're a walking contradiction. 你是个极端矛盾的人。 29. Deep-seated contradiction 深层次矛盾 30. checkered with contradictions 充满矛盾
莮Renissodifficult
不同意用“culture shock ”！“culture shock” 标准译法是：文化冲突culture shock 强调了两种文化之间的冲突（conflict ), “差异”不代表“冲突”，所以个人认为用culture shock 不妥，甚至会引起双方的矛盾。"中西文化有差异",一般有如下两种表达： There are cultural differences between China and the west. There are differences between chinese and western culture.
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