n many intercultural contexts, 在许多文化交错的情况下
deep culture is not noticed or understood in any profound sense. 并没有实现真正深入的文化了解与观察。
An English visitor to Thailand 一位英籍旅客在泰国
may experience a profound sense 可能体验到深深的
of cultural difference 文化差差异
when seeing monks with begging bowls. 当他目睹着和尚拿钵化缘时
The visitor hasn't -- strictly speaking -- 这旅客严格的来说没有
had a Thai experience 体验到泰国
but an English experience in Thailand. 不过是带着受了英式背景和心态影响的泰式体验
The deep elements of Thai cultural 泰式文化原理
are not those that are 不是建立在
the most sacred or symbolically important, 最神圣或最具象征价值的物件上
they are those that are most fundamental and subtle. 而是建设在最细微精巧的基础