The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
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Le Langage silencieux (1959), Chapitre 2 : Qu'est-ce que la culture ? (What is Culture?)
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Le Langage silencieux
Le Langage silencieux est un ouvrage de Edward T. Hall paru pour la première fois en 1959 sous le titre The Silent Language.
Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. The message it conveys comes through loud and clear. Because it is manipulated less consciously, it is subject to less distortion than the spoken language. It can shout the truth where words lie.
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Le Langage silencieux (1959), Chapitre 1 : La voix du temps (The Voices of Time)
The fact that behavior in animals is predominantly sex-linked has led to certain misconceptions concerning the role of sex in man. It is a great mistake to assume that the behavior which is observed in man is linked to physiology.
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Le Langage silencieux (1959), Chapitre 3 : Le vocabulaire de la culture (The Vocabulary of Culture)
[Almost everyone] has difficulty believing that behavior they have always associated with 'human nature' is not human nature at all but learned behavior of a particularly complex variety. Possibly one of the many reasons why the culture concept has been resisted is that it throws doubt on many established beliefs.
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Le Langage silencieux (1959), Chapitre 3 : Le vocabulaire de la culture (The Vocabulary of Culture)