unit 3-2课件.ppt

;Please list the top best friends for you. Why do you list them on the top three? What kind of people can be your friends? How do you usually contact your friends? When there is breach between you and your friend, how would you do? Do you want to make friends with foreigners? What nationalities are your preferable? Summary your opinion on friendship in people’s life.;Identifying Difference: Family Structure;Identifying Difference: Family Structure;1. What are the five orientations according to Kluckholm model? Human nature; relationship of man to nature; sense of time; activity; social relationship 2. In respect to human nature, what is middle-class/mainstream Americans’ orientation? In respect to human nature, middle-class/mainstream Americans are generally optimistic, choosing to believe the best about a person until that person proves otherwise. Average Americans are basically good. Americans generally believe that in order to bring out the basic goodness in human beings all you have to do is change the negative social conditions in which they exist. ;3. What about the Kluckhohns’ opinion on American’s “human nature”? They place Americans in the left-hand column (basically evil), citing the Christian belief in original sin. 4. How do today’s American see human nature? Good or evil, Americans in general believe humans and human society are ultimately perfectible—if only enough effort is made in that direction. 5. How do American see “man-nature orientation”? Americans see a clear separation between man and nature and man is clearly held to be in charge. Americans subdue, dominate and control their natural environment. ;6. How do Americans see “time orientation”? Americans are dominated by a belief in progress. They are future-oriented. This implies a strong task or goal orientation. “time is money”. They have optimistic faith in the future and what the future will bring. 7. How do Americans see “activity orientation”? Americans are so action-oriented. They a