Developing intercultural communicative skills

Task 2. Read and match paragraphs with their headings
Characteristics:
Culture has its own characteristics; we will discuss some of its characteristics here. Read and name each paragraph.

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  Shared
  
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  Continuous
  
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  Varies
  
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  Learnt
  
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  Social
  
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  Adaptive
  

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Culture is not the thing you study for it and you know it but it is just the process you pass from it, after that you will know about the culture. It is just like the thing that inherited in someone nature. All action the action we do like eating, dressing wearing ornaments etc is the result of culture we learned. One author says about learning culture "Babies and children learn about their culture by watching their parents and close family. They copy behavior they have seen and adopt different roles"3 and that's fact that babies and children learned culture by watching their parents and close family and then they apply these different roles in their Daily life and thus adapt their culture.
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Culture is something that is shared that is shared among groups of people. It is not the thing that someone posses it individually. Culture is always transferred through sharing so it mean that for transferring the culture the sharing is must. The sharing of culture refers to the term called enculturation according to author "Process of learning culture is called enculturation"4. Culture is shared in many ways; the main way for transferring the culture is the language. Language is the form of social communication and the knowledge is transferred through group discussion, public speaking and informal communication. The second way is the use of communication technologies nowadays like TV, DVD, internet etc play also important role in sharing the culture. These modern technologies have exposed every culture to the whole world.
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It is the product of people and originates and grows through social interaction. Something is differentiable to us through comparison, so for distinguishes culture we have to compare it with some other then we will know about all aspects of that culture therefore the culture must be social and without it there is no concept of culture. One author says that "culture can be thought of as the normative order, operating through operational and social influence, that guide and constrains the behavior of people in collectives"5 .so from above statement it is clear that culture is the overall thought in a normative order, and these thoughts are pass through several operational and social influences, it means that their also occur some changes in culture but these changes are collectively and thus people of that culture adopt their behavior to the culture.
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Culture is growing whole which includes in itself, the achievements of the past and present and makes provision for the future achievements of mankind. Culture is the result of past and present changes that occur in it, and thus it absorb that changes in itself and the culture become the result of past and present experiences and the process continue to next generation and so on. "Hence some sociologists like Lotion called culture the social heritage of man"6.
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Even changes occur in culture but is very slow process and generally it is flexible to all the people associated with that culture. when their occur some changes in the culture then at the same time people become use to with it and thus they feel nothing about their culture even people of other cultures will says anything about that culture but the people of that culture they are adapt with it. One author says about it that "The biological modifications and adjustments are always flexible to adapt even in the harsh conditions of the environment"7.it means that the changes occur in the culture is flexible, easy for everyone to follow.