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Marc: 
Hello. I’m Marc Beeby. I’m white. A westerner. I was born in Australia and I went to school in England. The culture I grew up in was basically English. But what does that mean? What’s my culture like? How has my culture affected the way I behave, how I see the world? And do I behave and see the world in a different way from you and the people from your culture?  
 
Talking about culture in any way is surprisingly hard - even describing what our own culture is like can be difficult, and it’s even harder to say how our culture affects the way we behave. And what about ‘foreign’ cultures? We may have a few ideas about what ‘foreigners’ are like, but are these ideas based on truth, or are they just stereotypes – simple and inaccurate pictures of people we don’t know very well. Over the next twelve programmes we’ll be thinking about these issues: we’ll also be hearing about ways of describing culture, and exploring some of the major differences between cultures. Today, as an introduction, we’ll be looking at a topic that will be central to all the programmes in the series: ‘inter-cultural communication’ - what happens when people from different cultures meet and communicate. But we start with what happens when communication breaks down. War. 
Ilse Meyer 
I was a child in Berlin in the first world war and I used to lie in bed at night, praying that God should give victory to the German soldiers until one night it suddenly occurred to me that at that very moment French and English children might be lying in bed praying that God should give victory to their soldiers. 
 
Marc: 
In 1945 the United Nations was established "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’. 55 years later, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan welcomed the latest attempt to build lasting world peace – the proclamation of the year 2001 as the Year of Dialogue among Civilisations. 
 
Kofi Annan 
The United Nation itself was created in the belief that dialogue can triumph over discord. That is why I have warmly welcomed the proclamation of the year 2001 as the United Nations year of the dialogue among civilizations. 
 
Marc: 
This dialogue, this communication between people from different cultures, isn’t something that’s only relevant to politicians and representatives of the UN. 
It’s personal. The world, we hear, is getting smaller. Global business, world-wide tourism, faster and more accessible ways of communicating all mean that most of us, at some point in our lives, will come into contact with people from cultures that are very different from our own. And when that happens we find ourselves facing some very interesting, very personal questions. Rebecca Fong teaches a course in intercultural communication at the University of the West of England. Here she is, a million miles away from war, facing up to flowers and the question of beauty… 
Rebecca Fong 
When I was quite young I went to live in Japan, and after having been there for a little while I was asked by some of the women I was working with if I'd like to do 'Ikebana' which is 
Japanese flower arranging. I decided not to but I did go to many flower arranging exhibitions and one day I was at one of these exhibitions and I saw an arrangement and  I laughed and I said 'oh well that本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。