文化是某一群体所有传统、信仰及生活方式的总和,从这种意义上来讲,每一群体都有一种文化,不管它是何等的原始,不开化、不文明。对人类学家来讲,一种文化并不优于另一种文化,就像语言学家指出的那样,语言没有孰好孰坏之分。人们追溯那些原始的,欠开化的一些语言形式,发现所谓的语言其实包含了大量的呻吟及嘀咕声,或者语言一开始就是由一系列的呻吟或嘀咕声组成也是可能的。对语言的研究表明,以前并没有一种语言方式能够与今天对语言的定 Culture is the sum of all the traditions, beliefs, and lifestyles of a certain group. In this sense, each group has a culture, no matter how primitive it is, and it is not open and uncivilized. For anthropologists, a culture is not better than another culture. As linguists point out, language is not good or bad. People traced back to primitive, underdeveloped forms of language, and found that the so-called language actually contained a lot of buzz and buzz, or that the language was composed of a series of squatting or buzzing at the beginning. The study of language shows that there was no prior language approach to the language