When communicating with people from other cultures, the individual sometimes is likely to treat them as “his people” and to assume there is only one way of doing things: that is “his way”.
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- Ethnocentrism” is the tendency to think of ones own culture as being at the centre of the world in other words, to assume that his own culture s way of thinking and acting is more natural, normal and correct the way people from other cultures think and act.
- When people speak to people in other cultures, cultural differences may affect the way they communicate.
- The following opinions are typical ethnocentric attitudes: l Most other cultures are _________ compared with my culture. l My culture should be the _________ for other cultures. l Other people are much the _________ as my people. l Our way of doing things is the only _________ way.
- When people speak to people in other cultures, cultural differences may affect the way they communicate. A: 正确 B: 错误
- 14、We often assume that when other people do the same things as we do, they do them for the same reasons; but this is not always reasonable. (assume)