In Korean culture, men cry and otherwise easily show their emotions, something that might be considered a betrayal of masculinity in Western culture.
在韩国文化中,男人会哭,也会轻易地表现自己的情绪,但在西方文化中,这可能会被认为是对男性气质的背叛。
Via satellite dishes and the Internet, the West meant something to them other than guns and territory: culture was a potential bond, they suggested, through which some dialogue might yet arise.
通过卫星电线和英特网,西方国家对他们来说远不止枪炮和领土:他们认为,文化是有潜力的束缚,通过它对话是有可能实现的。
We might as well face up to the fact that we live in a car culture, and it won’t change overnight.
我们也许会面对这样一个现实:我们生活在汽车文化里,这样的生活不会一晚上就改变。
So, this is an important reminder that just because we find something in our culture and just because it might well be pervasive doesn't mean necessarily that it's universal.
这一点很重要,它提醒了我们,不能因为某种现象存在于我们文化中,或者存在于多个文化中,就认为它是无所不在的。
and not for the culture they have been brought into, which you might like or not.
而不是他们所融入的文化,这文化你也许喜欢也许不喜欢。
So I was a counselor for a year, and then they invited me to become a dean, an assistant dean, in order to not only work with individual students and their issues, but to also think about campus culture and ways we might help prepare the culture for the change that was taking place.
这样我做了一年的顾问,之后他们请我做了院长,副院长,这样就不仅仅是处理,一个个学生和他们的事情,还要思考校园的文化,思考如何帮助校园文化准备好,应对将要发生的改变。
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