046 Culture

“Culture is what determines how we function as a society.”

In this touching episode, Philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen shares deeply with ShaoLan about how to build bridges between cultures and the importance of understanding one another. Learn the pronunciation of “culture” and how it is intertwined with Chinese language. In ancient China, people believed that the way we can convert and transform a language, literature, philosophy and symbols into a lifestyle, attitude and the way people think.

文 (wén) means “literature” or “language.”

化 (huà) means “transformation.”

 

 

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文化
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