现代大学英语精读1.lesson10-TheGreenBanana.ppt

TheGreenBananaDonaldBatchelderBook1Lesson10ThisPPTisforself-study

PartOne: Warm-up

PartTwo: BackgroundInformation

PartThree:TextAppreciation

PartFour: LanguageStudy

PartFive: ExtensionBook1Lesson10ContentsBTLEW

BackgroundInformationLesson10–TheGreenBananaPartTwo

ContentsLesson10–TheGreenBananaAuthorandtheTextEthnocentrismandOtherRelatedTermsIII.Inter-culturalUnderstandingCultureShockTowerofBabelBackgroundInformation

ThetextistakenfromBeyondExperience:AnExperientialApproachtoCross-culturalEducationeditedbyDonaldBatchelderandElizabethG.Warnerin1974.Whenthesecondeditionofthebookwaspublishedin1993,Batchelderexplainedhisviewoncross-culturaleducation:AuthorandtheTextTobecontinuedonthenextpage.

“Ifsomeofthegoalsofeducationinmoderntimesaretoopenuppossibilitiesfordiscoveryandexpandlearningandthechanceformutualacceptanceandrecognitioninawiderworld,itmaybeimportanttoofferstudentsaperspectiveontheirownimmediatecenteroftheworldbyenablingthemtoparticipatesensitivelyascross-culturalsojournerstothecenterofsomeoneelse’sworld.”AuthorandtheTextTheendofAuthorandtheText.

1EthnocentrismCultural

ChauvinismRelativism

Racism2II.Ethnocentrismandotherrelatedterms3Tobecontinuedonthenextpage.

Ethnicreferstoculturalheritage,andcentrismreferstothecentralstartingpointorthetendencyofpeopletoputtheirowngroupatthecenter.Thus,ethnocentrismbasicallyreferstojudgingothergroupsfromone’sownculturalpointofview,ormisinterpretingotherculturesbecauseoneusestheconceptsofhisownculture.Tobecontinuedonthenextpage.Ethnocentrism(种族优越论)II.Ethnocentrismandotherrelatedterms

Ethnocentrismcanleadtomakingfalseassumptionsaboutotherswaysbasedonone’sownlimitedexperience.Thekeywordisassumptions,b