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Contemporary College EnglishBook One Unit 10 The Green Banana LESSON TEN Warming Up 1. What is “learning moments”? Have you ever experienced “learning moments”? 2. Have you ever heard of or encountered the experience of cultural differences? List the examples. Background The text is taken from Beyond Experience: An Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Education edited by Donald Batchelder and Elizabeth G. Warner in 1974. Batchelder’s view on cross-cultural education: “If some of the goals of education in modern times are to open up possibilities for discovery and expand learning and the chance for mutual acceptance and recognition in a wider world, it may be important to offer students a perspective on their own immediate center of the world by enabling them to participate sensitively as cross-cultural sojourners to the center of someone else’s world.” Ethnocentrism (种族优越论) provincialism regionalism Cultural chauvinism Relativism racism cultural imperialism (文化扩张)     Everyone has culture. What does our culture teach us? language behaviors rules expectations the way we understand others the way we make decisions the way we make choices what is real what is healthy what is possible and what our limitations are Ayers rock Brazil culture in Brazil The glitzy Carnival attracts millions of people to Brazil every year when people loosen up their hip joints, dance the world’s most erotic dances, wear the world’s smallest bikinis and party the world’s longest party. Preparations start 3 months in advance, culminating in 2 weeks of balls and the carnival parade in February. People in Brazil Brazilians are very friendly, outgoing and ethnically diverse, composed from Amerindians, African slaves, the Portuguese and other Europeans. Travel in Brazil Introduction to the Text The text is taken from Beyond Experience: An Exp