有关入乡随俗的英文作文120字左右

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有关入乡随俗的英文作文120字左右

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Do as the Romans Do, but Do Not LoseYourself
As an Englishmajor student, we learn many things about other countries, especially about theEnglish-speaking countries, and ourultimate goal is to communicate with foreigners properly and even live in theforeign country comfortably. In my opinion, “Do as the Romans Do” is the mostuseful principle when we are communicating with foreigners or live in foreigncountry, but this does not mean that we should forget our national charactersor lose ourselves.
In this case, there is no doubt that this Japaneselearner bows a lot to her American professors. Because bowing in their cultureis so important that they will do it in many situations, and it is also becomea habit in their daily life. Therefore, even this Japanese learner studies outof Japan, she is still doing this. So we can say that one’s culture alwaysmakes a deep effect in one’s life. However, from her words, we can find outthat she is a little ethnocentric. First of all, we all have the common sensethat once one goes into new environment; he or she should learn about the localculture and try every means to be like a native person, but this Japaneselearner just does the totally opposite thing. She neglects her professors’advice not to bow so often in America, besides she says that “If I don’t dothat, I’m not being respectful and I won’t be a good person.” Second, from herwords we know that she knows the American custom that they don’t bow, but sheinsists doing this, ignoring the American local culture. It is known to us allthat ethnocentrism occurs when one’s nation is seen as the center of the worldand the beliefs, values, norms, and practices of his or her own culture istaken as superior to those of others. So I think this is one of the reasonsthat why she will bow all the time in America.
For me, a Chineselearner of English, I think when we are communicating with the English-speakingpeople, we should not and there is no necessary to try hard to behave verballyand nonverbally in the same way as they do. Because everyone has its ownenvironment of growing and even in the same environment, every family still hasits own family tradition. So I think there is no comparability to compare howdifferent between your and the foreigners’ behaviors. But we still should learnabout their cultural customs first before starting the communication, and thenbehave as naturally as possible. In addition, when we have the interculturalcommunication, we should neither think too highly of our own culture,nor look down upon our own culture.Because if one thinks too highly of his or her own culture, he or she may be ethnocentric;if one looks down upon his or her own culture, he or she may not love thenation, and if every person in this country all behave like this, this countrywill be destroyed sooner or later.
There is oneexample about myself. Though I do not go abroad, I still have the interculturalcommunication. During my visit to the 2010 Shanghai Expo, I realize thateveryone is more or less ethnocentric; for everyone has the sense ofcompetition which makes everyone wants to be the best. As I arrived inShanghai, I instinctively think we, the native Xiamen people, are better thanpeople in Shanghai. So my friend and I spoke our native language much moreoften than we are in Xiamen. It seems that we were afraid that no one knows wewere from Xiamen, so we tried every means to show our own characters. What’smore, when we heard someone spoke with the same accent like ours and saw thecar number began with Min which is short for Fujian Province, we were soexcited that we nearly wanted to talk to them. Likewise, when I talk withforeigners, I will also unconsciously tell them something about my own cultureand try to persuade them to love it. I think it is the so called ethnocentrism.Luckily, I am not a real ethnocentrism. I not only love my own culture and myown national character, but also like to know the others’ culture and customs;for I want to have effective communication with them and behave as they do whenit is necessary. I do not lose myself; I neither think too highly of my ownculture, nor look down upon it.
However, not allpeople do in the same way as I do. Nowadays there are more and more people goabroad for studying or living, and they also manage to apply for naturalizationas other country’s national. I suspect their motivation to do soand whether they like our country or not. I do not mean that they are wrong butI suspect. If they love our country, why they abandon their citizenships in ourcountry? Just because they think others’ culture is better than our culture? Ifso, they lose themselves, because there is not necessary to do just as they do.Maybe they not really look down upon their culture, but Michael Jackson is atypical example who lost himself. We all know that originally his skin wasblack, but he did not like this because black people were looked down upon inWest. So when it was possible he went to change his skin’s color.Unfortunately, I think he wasn’t hansom then before. Actually, he had thetalent of music, so there was no need for him to take much care of his skin; ifhe devoted all his life into music and kept a positive attitude to spread hisblack culture, he would conquer the people from all over the world.
In a word, asthis famous saying goes, do in Rome as the Romans do. The purpose of learningthe intercultural communication skills is not to lead us to abandon our cultureor look it down, but to give us the direction to communicate properly withforeigners or live comfortably in the foreign country. But remember not to loseyourself during the intercultural communication.