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Chapter 1： Introduction to Intercultural Communication I. Main Points（重点要点） 1. Communication: the Process of Understanding and Sharing Meaning 2. Understanding Culture 3. The Concept of Culture 4. Two Views of Culture Shock II. Teaching Objectives（教学目标） 1.to identify the definitions of globalization, culture merge and intercultural communication 2.to identify some relevant concepts about these three main themes 3.to cultivate students to be able to recognize and analyze cultural factors III. Teaching Course（教学步骤） 1. Present the Cultural Phenomena to Students (1) Present some cases involving different cultural contacts between persons from different countries or different parts of the same country (2) Then lead to the concept of globalization 2. Warm-up Questions 1) Do you want to go abroad? What’s your aim? 2) Do you find whether it’s easy or not to get along with foreign friends? 3. Key terms 3.1.a. Globalization (from economic standpoint) （从经济学角度定义全球化）: It is conceived as a process of increasing involvement in international business operations. （经济学视角中的全球化表现为不断增加的国际商务往来过程）。 3.1.b. Globalization (from sociological standpoint) （从社会学角度定义全球化）: It occurs when the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangement recede as people around the world become increasingly aware that they are receding. 3.1.c. Globalization (from Marxist standpoint) （从马克思主义角度定义全球化）: It is what people in the third world have already experienced for several centuries. It is called colonization. （全球化是第三世界国家在这几个世纪所遭受的苦难，即殖民化。） 3.2 a.Caucasians(高加索人): 较新的人类学研究显示，現代人的历史先是从非洲与中东到了欧洲，然后再从欧洲到了东亚， 所以高加索人（Caucasians）主要分为印欧雅利安人和闪族、含族等“挪亚的后裔”） 在生命历史变动过程中，总是界与东方人和黑人之间。如上所述，现代三大人种的形成， 得力于两次分裂：第一次经历了“非洲人与异非洲人之间”（between Africans and non─Africans）的分裂，第二次经历了“东方人与高加索人之间”（between Orientals and Caucasians）的分裂. 3.2 .b.Hispanic：It came into common use as a result of the 1980 Census to identify various U.S Spanish-speakers’ shared roots to Spain. It refers to that population s