霍夫斯坦特认为:文化是在一个环境中的人们共同的心理程序,不是一种个体特征,而是具有相同的教育和生活经验的许多人所共有的心理程序。世界文化的多样性具有不同方面和不同层次的多种表现形式。从文化多样性的视角来看,不同国家和地区之间乃至同一国家和地区内部之所以存在文化差异,是因为通常被我们视为文化实体的国家和地区实际上并不全是真正意义上的文化共同体。文化差异性,因地区异同,各地区人们所特有的文化异同而产生的差异,是来源于人类满足其相同基本需要时,所用的答案不同所致。已然存在的文化差异也 Hofstadter argues that culture is a common psychological process for people in an environment, not an individual trait, but a common psychological process shared by many people who share the same educational and life experience. The diversity of the world’s cultures has many manifestations in different aspects and at different levels. From the perspective of cultural diversity, the cultural differences between different countries and even within the same country and region exist because the countries and regions that are generally regarded as cultural entities by us are not actually the real culture community. Cultural differences, differences arising from differences and similarities between regions and cultures unique to each region, are due to differences in the answers that people use to meet their basic needs. Cultural differences that already exist also