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BÀI MẪU CHỦ ĐỀ CULTURE (PART 3)Bài mẫu chủ đề Culture (Part 3)

Thời gian đọc: ~20 min

1. Do you think it’s important to know about other cultures?

I do think it’s extremely important to learn about other cultures. Not only can you find out interesting things, but it makes it to interact with those people if you ever come in contact with them. Also, it makes it a lot easier to do business with those cultures. It’s important to be about the world and not just shut yourself into your own country.

  • Interact with: tương tác với
  • In contact with: liên lạc, tiếp xúc
  • Brainwash: tẩy não
  • Shut: đóng

2. How can we benefit from learning about other cultures?

Several ways that people can benefit from other cultures are in business, personal relationships, and just in self-improvement. In business, it is to know a little bit about whatever culture you plan to work with. For instance, I think in Muslim cultures, shaking hands with your left hand is considered extremely . If you didn’t know that, it could hurt your chances of doing business. Also, it’s important just to improve yourself by learning as much as you can, and culture is a good subject.

  • Muslim: đạo Hồi
  • Shake hands: bắt tay
  • Rude: thô lỗ, bất lịch sự
  • Polite: lịch thiệp

3. Do you think that learning foreign languages can help us understand foreign cultures?

I’m not sure that just learning the language is a good way to learn about a culture, but most places where you would learn a language would help you learn about the , so indirectly, yes. The language alone isn’t great for understanding culture. For instance, German is a really harsh language, but Germans aren’t people. You really need to study more than the language if you want to get to know a culture.

  • Indirectly: một cách gián tiếp
  • Harsh: khắc nghiệt, khó chịu

4. Do you think it’s easier to learn about other cultures today than it was before?

Yes, of course, it is. All you have to do is to look at from long ago, about foreign cultures and you can see the lack of knowledge people had. Today, with the Internet and the number of books available, it is almost to be ignorant. It is so easy to learn about anything you want.

  • Stamp: con tem
  • Available: có sẵn
  • Ignorant: dốt, thiếu kiến thức

5. What do you think is the best way to learn about another culture?

Obviously, the best way to learn about a culture is to go there and it. If you can get a feel for the culture firsthand, it will be a lot easier to pick things up, but I also believe that you can learn a ton about other cultures just by reading about them. Reading about people’s experiences in foreign lands is the next best thing to being there.

  • Experience: trải nghiệm
  • Firsthand: tự bản thân mình
  • Learn a ton: học được rất nhiều

6. In your country’s culture, how do you show that you are being polite?

We really value politeness and in the UK, and there are many types of polite behavior. One of the first things we learn as children is to say “please” and “thank you”. As adults, I think we are careful not to be too direct in the language we use. For example, we would never say “Bring me the bill” in a restaurant because this kind of direct instruction would sound . It would be much more polite to say “Could we have the bill, please?”

  • Politeness: sự lịch sự
  • Good manners: cách cư xử đúng mực
  • Direct: trực tiếp
  • Gross: thô lỗ
  • Courteous: lịch sự
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