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1、江苏省启东中学高中英语Unit3UnderstandingeachotherReading教案牛津译林版选修6Inmanyaspectsofourlife,weoftendividetheworldintotwoparts:theeasternoneandthewesternone.TheformerusuallyreferstoAsiaandthelatterincludesmainlyEurope,NorthAfricaandAmerica.Wedividelikethisnotonlybecauseofthegeographicallocationdifferences
2、,butalsoduetotheculturaldifferencestoalargeextent.Inthefollowingparts,you’llseesuchdifferences,fromthecausestothecustomsofthetwosidesnowadays.PartIWhatleadstotheculturaldifference?TheculturesoftheEastandtheWestreallydistinguisheachotheralot.Thisisbecausetheculturesystemsaretwoseparatesystem
3、sonthewhole.Theoriginoftheeasternculturesismainlyfromtwocountries:ChinaandIndia.Bothofthetwoculturesaregestatedbyrivers.InChina,themotherriveristheYellowRiverwhiletheIndianoneistheHinduRiver.Thesetwoculturesweredevelopedforseveralthousandyearsandformedtheirownstyles.TheninDangDynastyofChina
4、,theChineseculturegraduallywentoverseastoJapan,mixedintotheJapanesesocietyandshapedtheJapaneseculturenowadays.ThoughabitdifferentfromtheChineseone,itbelongstothesamesystem.Whenthetwomotherriversgavebirthtotheeasternculture,anotherfamousculturewasbroughtupontheMesopotamianPlain----theMesopot
5、amianCivilization.ThiscivilizationlaterondevelopedintotheculturesoftheAncientGreeceandAncientRome.Andthesetwoarewell-knownasthebaseoftheEuropeanculture.LiketheChineseculture,theEuropeanonealsocrossedwaters.WhenthecolonistsofEnglandsettleddowninAmerica,theirculturewentwiththemovertheAtlantic
6、Ocean.SotheAmericanculturedoesn'tdistinguishfromtheEuropeanonealot.Atthesametime,thedifferenceofthelanguagesystemsaddstotheculturaldifferences.IntheEast,mostlanguagesbelongtothepictographiclanguage(seethepicturebelow)whiletheWesternlanguagesaremostlybasedontheLatinsystem,forexample,theoneI’
7、musingtowritethispaper.Otherfactorslikehumanracedifferencecountsaswell.Butwhat’smore,duetothefardistanceandthesteepareasbetweentheEastandWest,thetwoculturesseldomcommunicateuntilrecentcenturies.Sotheygrewuptotallyintheirownwayswithalmostnointerferencefro
