《新概念英语》（美音）IV-44

Lesson 44 Patterns of culture 文化的模式

First listen and then answer the following question ,

听录音,然后回答以下问题.

What influences us from the moment of birth ?

Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of any great moment .The inner workings of workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthly of investigation ,but custom ,we have a way of thinking ,is behaviour at its most commonplace.As a matter of fact ,it is the other way around .Traditional custom,taken the world over ,is a mass of detailed behaviour more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions ,no matter how aberrant .Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter .The fact of first -rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief ,and the very great varietiesit may manifest.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes .