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Section B

26: While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan,

she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

Were they tuned off because an American had the nerve to instruct Japanese in their own art form or they deliberately tried to signal their rejection of her?

Obcamp later found out that her listeners were not being disrespectful.

Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration.

Her listeners were showing their respect for her by chewing on her words. Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of minority group in North America.

Learning how different cultures signal respect can help you avoid misunderstandings.

Here are some examples. In the deaf culture of North America, many listeners show applause not by clapping their hands but by waving them in the air.

In some cultures, both overseas and in some minority groups in North America, listeners are considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker.

Respect is shown by looking in the general direction but avoiding direct eye contact. In some countries, whistling by listeners is a sign of approval while in other countries it is a form of insult.

29: Chris is in charge of purchasing and maintaining equipment in his Division at Taxlong Company.

He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personnel

director to discuss the work he has done in the past year.

Salary, promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting. Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year.

First, he bought new equipment for one of the departments. He has been particularly happy about the new equipment because many of the employees have told him how much it has helped them.

Along with improving the equipment, Chris began a program to train employees to use equipment better and do simple maintenance themselves. The training saved time for the employees and money for the company.

Unfortunately, one serious problem developed during the year. Two employees the Chris hired were stealing, and he had to fire them.

Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing and maintenance manager for the whole company will be open in a few months, and he would like to be promoted to the job.

Chris knows, however, that someone else wants that new job, too. Kim is in charge of purchasing and maintenance in another Division of the company.

She has also made several changes over the year. Chris knows that his boss likes Kim’s work, and he expects that his work will be compared with hers.

33: Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom. They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life. Many proverbs remind people of the values that are important in the culture. Values teach people how to act, what is right, and what is wrong.

Because the values of each culture are different, understanding the values of another culture helps explain how people think and act. Understanding your own culture values is important too.

If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values, not yours, getting along with them will be much easier.

Many proverbs are very old. So some of the values they teach may not be as important in the culture as they once were.

For example, Americans today do not pay much attention to the proverb "Haste makes waste", because patience is not important to them.

But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today.

Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb "Time is money" is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before.

A study of proverbs from around the world shows that some values are shared by many cultures. In many cases though, the same idea is expressed differently.

Section C

Our lives are woven together.

As much as I enjoy my own company，

I no longer imagine I can get through a single day

much less all my life completely on my own.

Even if I am on vacation in the mountains，

I am eating food someone else has grown，living in a house someone else has built，

wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others，using electricity someone else is distributing to my house.

Evidence of interdependence is everywhere;

we are on this journey together.

As I was growing up，I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.

“Make your own way”，” Stand on your own two feet” or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action：Now that you’ve made your bed，lie on it. Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture.

I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices.

But the teaching was shaped by our cultural imagines. And instead，I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help.

I would do almost anything not to be a burden，and not require any help from anybody.

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