Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30.
In most discussions of cultural diversity, attention has focused on visible, explicit aspects of culture, such as language, dress, food, religion, music, and social rituals. Although they are important, these visible expressions of culture, which are taught deliberately and learned consciously, are only the tip of the iceberg or culture. Much of culture is taught and learned implicitly, or outside awareness. Thus, neither cultural insiders nor cultural outsiders are aware that certain "invisible" aspects of their culture exist.
Invisible elements of culture are important to us. For example, how long we can be late before being impolite, what topics we should avoid in a conversation, how we show interest or attention through listening behavior, what we consider beautiful or ugly. These are all aspects of culture that we learn and use without being aware of it. When we meet other people whose invisible cultural assumptions differ from those we have learned implicitly, we usually do not recognize their behavior as cultural in origin.
Differences in invisible culture can cause problems in cross-cultural relations. Conflicts may arise when we are unable to recognize others’ behavioral differences as cultural rather than personal. We tend to misinterpret other people's behavior, blame them, or judge their intentions or competence without realizing that we are experiencing cultural rather than individual differences.
Formal organizations and institutions, such as schools, hospitals, workplaces, governments, and the legal system are collection sites for invisible cultural differences. If the differences were more visible, we might have less misunderstanding. For example, if we met a man in a courthouse who was wearing exotic clothes, speaking a language other than ours, and carrying food that looked strange, we would not assume that we understood his thoughts and feelings or that he understood ours. Yet when such a man is dressed similarly to us, speaks our language, and does not differ from us in other obvious ways, we may fail to recognize the invisible cultural differences between us. As a result, mutual misunderstanding may arise.
Which of the following was NOT mentioned as an example of invisible culture?
Đáp án đúng là: B
Giải thích
Cái nào sau đây không được nhắc đến như là một ví dụ về văn hóa vô hình?
A. các chủ đề cần tránh trong cuộc trò chuyện
B. ăn gì ở tòa án
C. muộn ra sao được coi là bất lịch sự
D. mọi người bày tỏ sự hứng thú với những lời người khác đang nói
Thông tin:
Invisible elements of culture are important to us. For example, how long we can be late before being
impolite, what topics we should avoid in a conversation, how we show interest or attention through listening behavior, what we consider beautiful or ugly. (Yếu tố vô hình của văn hóa rất quan trọng đối với chúng ta. Ví dụ, chúng ta có thể muộn bao lâu trước khi trở nên bất lịch sự, chúng ta nên tránh các chủ đề nào trong một cuộc nói chuyện, chúng ta thể hiện sự hứng thú hay chú ý qua hành vi nghe như thế nào, chúng ta xem cái gì là đẹp đẽ hay xấu xí.)
→ Chọn đáp án B