PURC Lesson 3 Flashcards
originates from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin “colere,” which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture. (Zimmermann, 2017).
CULTURE
encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language,
marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things.
(De Rossi, 2017).
Culture
is the lifeblood of a vibrant society, expressed in many ways we tell our stories, celebrate, remember the past, entertain ourselves, and imagine the future.
Culture
involves the formation of shared norms and knowledge with which people
associate their individual and collective cultural identities.
CULTURE GLOBALIZATION
increasing interconnectedness among different populations and
cultures. This has been successful through the use of Internet, popular
culture media, and international travel.
Globalization
It is the way of communicating and sharing meanings with individual
from different cultures.
INTERCULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
It is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural
backgrounds communicate in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures.
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
is considered a sign of happiness in most countries, but in Japan it is
considered a sign of confusion, embarrassment or insecurity.
Laughing
We all know the English meaning of the word fart, but did you know that fart means speed in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish? Moreover, the words for speed bump in each language are fartbump, fartshump, and farthinder.
FART
In German, it means poison! Taking it a step further, gift in the Scandinavian languages can mean both poison and marriage. These two meanings are related and stem from the same root word “to give.”
GIFT
In Romanian, crap means carp, which is a type of commonly-eaten fish. To be fair, English has a fish called a crappie.
CRAP
Brat means brother in Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Croatian, and Serbian. Next time you call your brother a brat, just tell him you’re learning one of these languages.
BRAT
has a more juvenile meaning in Swedish
–pee.
KISS
If you tend to have many conversations about jams and jellies in France, it might be useful to be aware that préservatif actually means condom. In fact, many European languages have variations of preservative that all mean condom.
PRESERVATIVE
The ubiquitous piece of Internet slang lol is either an acronym or initialism depending on how you would pronounce it, but in Dutch it means fun.
LOL
Slut is yet another false friend coming from Swedish, in which it means end. If you happen to see Slut on screen after watching a film, it’s the equivalent to The End. And Slutstation is not what you might think–it’s just the last stop on a train route.
SLUT
