英语四级美文听力第42-Is There a Backward Language .pdfVIP

英语四级美文听力第 42 篇:Is There a Backward Language Passage 42 Is There a Backward Language Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings.In this sense, every group has a culture, howeve savage, underdeveloped, o uncivilized it may seem to us.To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture ove another,just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic rank among languages. People once thought of the languages of backward group