以下是部分关于“文化”的中、英文词汇对照，其中有些也是跨文化交流理论和心理学理论中的概念。罗列于此，谨供参考。

• cultural 文化的
• cultural adaptation 文化适应
• cultural adhesion 文化信奉
• cultural advantage 文化优势
• cultural anthropology 文化人类学
• cultural artifact 文化产品
• cultural assimilation 文化训练
• cultural assimilator 同化训练
• cultural attitude 文化态度
• cultural changes 文化变化
• cultural conditioning 文化条件作用
• cultural configuration 文化全貌
• cultural conflict 文化冲突
• cultural conserve 文化固定性
• cultural context 文化环境
• cultural convergence 文化汇合
• cultural cycle 文化轮回
• cultural deprivation 文化剥夺
• cultural determinism 文化决定论
• cultural difference 文化差异
• cultural diffusion 文化传播
• cultural disadvantage 文化劣势
• cultural drift 文化趋势
• cultural drift hypothesis 文化流布假设
• cultural ecology 文化生态学
• cultural education 文化教育
• cultural emic concept 文化特有概念
• cultural ethos 文化气质
• cultural etic concept 文化共同概念
• cultural evolution 文化演变
• cultural focus 文化焦点
• cultural framework 文化构架
• cultural gradient 文化渐进度
• cultural growth 文化生产
• cultural identity 文化认同
• cultural inertia 文化惰性
• cultural integration 文化整合
• cultural island 文化孤岛
• cultural lag 文化落后
• cultural norm 文化常模
• cultural norm 文化规范
• cultural parallelism 文化并行论
• cultural pattern 文化模式
• cultural process 文化作用
• cultural psychiatry 文化精神病学
• cultural relativism 文化相对论
• cultural resemblance 文化类似
• cultural science psychology 社会科学心理学
• cultural sociology 文化社会学
• cultural speech 文化言语
• cultural supersystem 文化超系统
• cultural test bias 文化测验偏差
• cultural traits 文化特质
• cultural transmission 文化传递
• cultural tyranny 文化专制主义
• culturally deprived children 文化剥夺儿童
• culturally disadvantaged children 文化处境不利儿童
• cultural historical psychology 文化历史心理学

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German culture is actually something new to me and it naturally becomes a focus these days since I am in the country. Besides fascinated by Dresden’s Baroque architecture, I started to search for references in respect to German business culture etiquettes. Here come the results:

Business Etikette in Deutschland. Mind your Manners is a book that is written “to help the business professional or student prepare for an assignment in Germany”. The book tells you about the german business culture and is said to be “Your Compact Guide to Doing Business in Germany”

What behavior are expected in Germany, a country where the people are known for their guttural language, their obsession with “Ordnung”, their square-jawed seriousness, and other habits and sensitivities?

And, here is an more detailed introduction to the book.

A recent survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong shows that the United States is still at the top position when Chinese students choose their destinations for study abroad. France ranks the second in the report, overtaking the U.K. who has been in the second position for many years.

According to the report, the survey was conducted between March and April, 2007 in 7 cities among 13,000 students who are going to graduate in July this year. It appears that part of the purpose of the survey is to find out how students in the mainland would view Hong Kong as one of their destinations for study outside the Chinese mainland. The result is that Hong Kong is actually in the 10th position. More detailed ranking is as follows:

1. the United States 17.7%
2. France 12.4%
3. the U.K. 11.2%
4. Canada 8.6%
5. Australia 8.0%
6. Singapore 6.7%
7. Japan 6.7%
8. South Korea 6.3%
9. Germany 5.8%
10. Hong Kong S.A.R. 3.8%

In respect to subject areas, the survey reveals that Economics and Management goes to the top, taking 24.4% in the survey, while Social Sciences taking 10.1% and Computer Science and Software Engineering taking 9.9%.

Given the fact that in the following 5 years, there are going to be about 10 million students looking for a seat in higher education each year, more and more graduates from secondary education would be forced to explore other options, since the capacity of higher education provision is limited and only half of the applicants can have the opportunity. The significance of the survey is that it provides with us some indications with regard to geographic preferences when people making their choices of study abroad.