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CONCLUSION
Think three times before you act.
——Confucian proverb
What’s the use of running if you’re not on the right road?
——Germany proverb
Cultures have many layers of meanings, while proverb
provides only a small part to understand culture. However,
it does offer a kind of window to seek through the outside
world—the culture diversity. And in this way, proverb is
a good way to analyze what the other kind of culture is
and why it is being so. At the same time, proverb provides
important information of the culture pattern or culture
value orientation.
However, although this text mainly concerns the
analysis of culture diversity through proverbs, cultures do
have common points. It is just like that the proverbs from
China and Germany both reveal the importance of good
thinking. And because of culture diversity, conclusions
about different cultures are generalized observations, not
ironclad rules.
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HOU Rong (2013).
Cross-Cultural Communication, 9(2), 31-35
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