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John Fielding,
CEO
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An average of fourteen national cultures and 160 participants take part in conferences arranged by companies for their international managers, according to a survey of 500 major German companies published recently by Simon, Kucher and Partners.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Using texts from the language pair German and English, she illustrated how careful reflection about cultural aspects in translation and interpreting classes can contribute to a deeper understanding of similarities and differences in the cultures involved.
Whether studying French, German, Indonesian or Japanese, students can have the satisfaction of achieving a high level of linguistic ability whilst absorbing the flavour of different cultures and traditions.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Many, such as the Scythians and Germans, were warrior cultures dependent on hunting or raiding; for them bronze and iron could be made into better weapons.
The language is derived from several other languages fused together through an intermarriage of the Caribs with French, Arawak and German as well as Spanish cultures.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Kramsch also found that the texts tended to stress similarities between cultures to minimize potentially threatening differences instead of helping the learner construct an understanding of German culture based on higher-level contrastive relational analyses.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The German nuclear lobby and government both deliberately "forget" about the dirty facts of uranium mining and uranium processing because they won´t admit that the German nuclear business results worldwide in tons of radioactive and toxic tailings of uranium mining , followed by disastrous impacts on local cultures.
The ideal qualities of Vichy came from the French people; the Germans did not care one bit about Vichy culture or make anything other than pragmatic demands to control the people.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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However, the fact that many Germans from areas outside Germany belong to the German language and culture especially in eastern and southeastern Europe should also be included.
British, German, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese cultures were imposed on Africa.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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There are many Germans living in Russia, however, these people, although ethnically German, are more assimilated into Russian culture than in previous centuries.
From that statement, one might believe that Germans behaved like they did and had a culture like they did because of the State that existed around them, and that other cultures would be different because of their own states.
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