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He tells the story of a boy in an immigrant neighborhood that connects two cultures, Mexican and American.
VOA: special.2010.06.21
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In the course of traveling, cultures encounter other culture and they often encounter cultures that are very different from their own.
在旅行过程中,文化与文化相互碰撞,而人们通常则会遇到,与其自身所处文化截然不同的另一些文化
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We do have, um, a focus on non- Western cultures in one of our core curriculum classes.
在核心课程中，我们确实有一门课不是讲西方文化的。
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The idea of admitting mistakes and finishing the business of the old year is found in many cultures.
VOA: special.2009.01.01
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The concept of individual freedom has had no importance in these great majorities of cultures in human history.
在人类历史的大多数文化中,个人自由这个理念显得无足轻重
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So,smaller cultures lose their local language as the language of the culture in power becomes the stronger influence.
VOA: special.2009.12.02
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And that's used in a lot of Far East cultures— the pentatonic scale, just a five-note scale there.
它大量用于远东的文化中,这种五声的音阶,五个音符的音阶
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Miz Mead began her studies of cultures in an unusual way for a woman of her time.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
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Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.
古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。
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David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.
VOA: special.2009.12.02
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In some Eastern cultures there's more of a view about faith and more attributions to situation.
而在东方文化中，人们更看重命运,更多地归因于实际情况中。
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"You have seen massive evidence of huge social impacts in South America,farmers, up to 90,000 farmers, being displaced from their land in places like Paraguay because of the advent of massive GM intensive mono cultures, urban poverty increasing, food security has decreased all across the southern corner of Latin America dramatically over the last decade,"
VOA: standard.2009.10.21
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They'll say human rights are ideas and concepts embedded in religious traditions, in cultures, in ethical traditions, and only recently have we decided to make human rights law out of it.
他们会说人权的思想和概念,根植于宗教传统，文化和道德传统中，只是近几百年来我们决定,从而确立了人权法。
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And one reason Bowman believes this is that we have such a difficult time in understanding other peoples and other cultures is that the very idea of defending one's honor has largely been devalued in the modern west.
鲍曼给出了一个理由,正是因为西方社会中,对维护荣誉的观念早已淡化,才导致他们对其他社会群体,和特定文化的不理解。
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And he believed that it was insidious, in order to have these sort of regional cultures.
他认为各地拥有不同的文化,是具有潜在的威胁的
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Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.
十九和二十世纪的考古学家们,震惊地发现了,古代伟大名族和文化的遗迹，有些还是大规模，复杂的帝国遗迹,但也有一些就完全从人类记忆中消失了。
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But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.
但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。
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But at the same time the study of moral reasoning is a fascinated--fascinating issue for those of us interested in cross-cultural psychology because there are plain differences across cultures.
但同时,道德推理是一个很有趣的研究,尤其对那些对跨文化心理感心趣的人,因为每个文化都有明显的差异。
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And this is my colleague, Marianne LaFrance, who is actually not smiling in that picture but she studies smiling and smiling in adults, smiling in children, smiling across cultures, and the different social uses of smiling.
另一位是我的同事，法国人玛丽安，她在照片上没有笑,但她研究微笑，成人的微笑，孩子的微笑，文明的微笑，微笑的不同社会功用。
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Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.
尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受
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This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.
这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。
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For instance, if you look at newspaper reports about murders, in cultures like the United States the report tends to emphasize the personal characteristics of the person accused of the murder.
例如在报纸上看到一宗谋杀宗，像美国这样的文化就会着重于报道,被指控为凶手的人的性格特点。
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Now, Western cultures, as I've said, are highly invested in an ethics of autonomy and so debates we have in our culture tend to be framed in terms of an ethics of autonomy.
我之前说过，西方文化，具有强烈的自治道德,所以我们文化中的争议,都是从自治道德的观点出发的。
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