文档介绍：A Danish woman in new York
It refers to the idea that ing from another culture are more similar to you than they actually are or that another person’s situation is move similar to yours than it in fact is .In this case ,the actress had assumed that Deamark is similar to New York, so what monly done in Denmark is monly done in New York.
Girl- ness
This case reflects one of translation problems ,the lack of conceptual equwalence whick refers to abstranctideas may not exist in the same fashion in different languages .In this case, in China, ”girl” means someone who is young and sigle while “woman” means someone who is married and not young. In the west it is customary to call any female past puberty a woman.
A quarrel
This case reflects the different use and understanding of silence can influence the actual munication. Different might have different interpretations to silence. Eastern cultures usually attaches more meanings to silence. While most western cultures consider silence to be absence munication and most municative behavior. In this case Li Hua kept silence to let both of them calm down but Smith misunderstood the silence.
A fish out of the water
This case reflects the American student experiences culture shock, culture shock is the painful experience an individual may encounter when entering a different culture in this case the American student experiences the ps