学术英语社科类unit9原文及翻译.pdf

Cultural Globalization 1.Much of the early development of different languages, customs, and other diverse aspects world cultures resulted from the isolation of groups of people from one another. It is not surprising , then, that a degree of cultural amalgamation has occurred as improved transportation and communication have brought people of various societies into ever more frequent contact . Analyzing the blurring of cultural differences inevitably includes a great deal about fast food, basketball, rock music, and other such aspects of pop culture, but such analysis does not trivialize the subject,. Instead , a long standing bottom up line of political theory argues that the world`s people can build on commonplace interactions and increasing cultural commonalities that engender familiarity with and confidence in one another to create a global civil society that might evolve into a global nation. By the same process, if transnational civil societies develop, then regional and even global schemes of governance could conceivably form and supplement or supplant the territorial state. Scholars who examine the bottom-up process of transnational integration look for evidence in such factors as the flow of communications and commerce between countries and the spread across borders of what people wear, eat, and do for recreation. 1、不同语言、风俗习惯以及其他不同的文化背景下，世界文化的早期发展，是从彼此分离的人 群中产生的。这并不奇怪，那么，文化融合的程度已经发生，因为交通运输和沟通带来了不同社会的 人们更频繁的接触。模糊的分析文化差异必然包括快餐、篮球、摇滚乐以及一些其他的流行文化，但 是，这种分析并并不切题。相反，一个长期的自下而上的政治理论认为，世界上的人可以在司空见惯 的相互作用和增加文化共性产生的熟悉和对彼此的信心创造一个全球公民社会， 可能会发展成一个全 球性的民族。通过同样的过程，如果跨国公民社会得到发展，那么治理区域甚至全球方案的可能形式 和补充或取代国家的领土的形式。 学者们研究了自底向上的跨国整合的过程， 在通信和贸易的流动和 国家之间的蔓延，人们穿着，吃，并做娱乐的传播这些因素之间的中寻找证据。 2.While it is premature to talk of a world culture , and indeed that may never come, there is signific