It helps us understand Israel's God as the end product of familiar cultural processes, processes of convergence We see convergences of cultures all the time--and differentiation.
它帮助我们了解以色列的上帝,它作为相似文化过程的最终产品,集合的过程,我们一直能看到文化的融合,及保留差异。
And all of the diversity of ethnicity and just cultural perspective. That's something I really enjoy.
有民族的多样性和文化观念的差异性。那是我真正喜欢的。
extending the issue of the two-parent versus one-parent family is, "To what extent are these notions validated " cross-culturally?"
将双亲和单亲家庭的问题扩展了一下,“这些概念究竟在多大程度上,会因跨文化差异而有所变化“
But there are many more similarities than differences.
但文化共同性要比差异多。
This is cultural bias, of course.
当然这是文化上的差异。
And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."
还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调
then you have to understand, you know, their language and also the cultural differences too
然后你必须理解,他们的语言和文化差异,
There's big cultural differences, really big.
文化差异很大,非常大。
It's differently, definitely cultural difference.
文化差异很大。
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。
What kind of evidence is there for cross-cultural variation?
是否存在跨文化差异的证据?
And there's been some efforts cross-culturally, to go back to the question this young man asked before looking at cross-cultural differences in toilet training and weaning, which are really big differences, to see if they correspond in any interesting way to personality differences.
回到刚才那位同学提出的问题,确实也已经有些跨文化的研究试图探究,在如厕训练和断奶上的跨文化差异,这些差异是非常大的,而这些研究的目的,是为了看看这些跨文化上的差异,是否与人格差异存在着某种联系。
And one of the things they were talking a lot about is the cultural differences.
而他们谈论较多的话题之一就是文化差异。
And yet he said we are focusing too much on cultural differences and he added not because there are no cultural differences.
然而他说,我们对文化差异的关注太多了,他补充道不是因为没有文化差异。
So I am willing to introduce these ideas but A, because it's not my training and people who are focusing on cultural differences will do a much better job than I do; and second, because what I hope to look into is the universal, things are common across cultures.
所以我想介绍这些观点,但是首先,因为这不是我的专业,研究文化差异的人会比我做得更好;,其次,因为我所希望研究的是普遍事物,不同文化中普遍的东西。
This is an important cultural difference.
这是一项重要的文化差异。
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