Unit5 Nutrition and balance: a look at the nutritional information, like the number of calories preserving, grams of fat, sodium, cholesterol, fiber and sugar content will make you more knowledgeable in selecting foods to reduce your nutritional health risk.
Pragmatism: in the westerns’ eyes, food or eating is just a way to keep healthy, having little to do with artistry. Nor will they be particular about the taste of food too much. Unit6 Creativity: the ability to create
Self-reliance: is a principal value of child rearing in middle-class American.
Originality： do the Chinese teach their children A: Chinese teach their children by holding their hands How do Americans doA: On their own and even to discover new problem for which creative solutions are wanted.
Can you find the theories supporting the two different teaching method
A: Evolutionary and revolutionary
2. Can you tell any other differences between the two educational systems
A: The contrast between the two cultures can also be seen in the fears we both harbor. Chinese teachers are fearful that if skills are not acquired early, they may never be acquired; there is, on the other hand, no comparable hurry to promote creativity. American educators fear that unless creativity has been acquired early, it may never emerge; on the other hand, skills can be picked up later.
Unit7 Key concepts Monochronic timeMonochronic time is an approach that favors linear structure and focus on one event or interaction at a time.
Polychronic time A polychronic time system is a system where several things can be done at once, and a more fluid approach is taken to scheduling time. Unlike Americans and most northern and western European cultures, Latin American and Arabic cultures use the polychromic of time.
Linear structure In monochromic time, linear structure means people focus on one event or interaction at a time.
Schedule oriented People in polychronic time cultures treat
time as a less tangible medium so that they can interact with more than one person or do more than one thing at a time. People oriented Polychronic individuals are oriented toward people, human relationships, and the family, which is the core of their existence. Family takes precedence over everything else, close friends come next.. Comprehension questions
What is monochronic culture What is polychronic culture Monochronic cultures typically emphasize doing one thing at a time during a specified time-period, working on a single task until it is finished.
Polychronic cultures are involved with many things at once, usually with varying levels of attention paid to each. What are the different attitudes monchronic people and polychronic people hold toward timeMonochronic people see time as being divided into fixed elements (seconds, minutes, hours, etc.)
Sequential blocks that can be organized, quantified, and scheduled.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of M-time system and P-time system
Once the time is set, it is rarely changed, and people take it seriously. M-time cultures is one who violates the rule of punctuality shall be punished seriously. Matters in a polychronic plans for the future: even important plans maybe changed right up the minute of execution.
Unit 9Key conceptsHigh-context cultureHigh context cultures rely on the context, either the actual physical environment of communication or an internalized social context or both, or convey a large part or even all of a message’s meaning. Low-context cultureLow context culture, in which context is not assumed to be understood, messages are explicit, direct, and completely encoded in words, and meaning is entrusted almost entirely to words. Implicitness
The message which someone expressed is elliptical, indirect, and allusive.
ExplicitnessThe message which someone expressed is direct, and
completely encoded in words, and meaning is entrusted almost entirely to words..
VerbalizingVerbalizing- that is, to put things in words, whether written or oral. Comprehensive questions
What is High-context culture What is Low-context culture High context cultures rely on the context, either the actual physical environment of communication or an internalized social context or both, or convey a large part or even all of a message’s meaning.
Low context culture, in which context is not assumed to be understood, messages are explicit, direct, and completely encoded in words, and meaning is entrusted almost entirely to words. Implicitness
What does silence mean in high-context cultures What is the function of silence in high-context culturesIt means entirely accepted.
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