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between them. Animals’ consciousness has no such capacity. Culture is the memory of mankind. Culture as a complex system of symbolization has the function of recording all kinds of actions of mankind. Spoken and written languages are the main carriers of culture. People depend on the oral language, experience, and knowledge to create culture in the world. Culture of the world is the golden key to open the door of wisdom. For an individual, a person's son comes to the world is ignorant, and then the family, schools and community give him the culture, and also create a culture somewhat. On the community as a whole, regardless of changes in the social system, it would still have to study and inherit the culture of the past. Culture is intangible schools where people create culture. Once culture is created as a cultural environment, it will influence and restrict people. A society has three major components including economy, politics, and culture. Culture occupies an important position. It cannot only promote economic development, political progress, but also the national spirit. It units the national essence of the tradition, and displays a state’s history and the brilliant modern civilization. B. The Significance of Studying Culture Since the World War II, the people discovered the world is becoming smaller and smaller. The various countries' government officials frequently shuttle back and forth at the international stages. The cross-nation corporations blossom and bear fruits in the world. The scientists, the scholars repeatedly appear in the international academic forums. The United Nations’ peacekeeping troops are on the run to the world military conflict hot spot. More and more people love the international travels. More and more people become the international students, immigrants. The Chinese teachers mount the foreign rostrum. The foreign scholars come to China to hold speeches. There are more and more cross cultural communications, and show a quite magnificent sight. A country in the world almost can’t isolate for self-propagation, but always communicate cultures with the other countries and influence each other, constantly learn, absorb and integrate from foreign culture. This culture communications play a great role in promoting the social progress. However, one can often hear cross cultural relations’ contradiction and question, because of the different cultures and the ways to express. Some countries’ heads behave a hand signal that they thought is friend, but they had enraged the people of other countries. The American merchants come to China to do business. Any business has not been done, and the merchants are unhappy. The English teachers often complain that Chinese students do not cooperate. Some people first go to the US to study, and then they have to come back after a short time because of the different culture. To prevent the above things happening again, more and more scholars begin to study the foreign countries and foreign cultures. Since the mid-20th century, waves of culture studies have been rising quietly. After the Cold War period, the culture studies reached a climax, and expanded. The culture studies have become a very important issue today. In Europe, the culture studies as a subject already exist early. It mainly refers to study the written materials, which mainly reflects the upper ruling classes. The books of history and cultural realities, sometimes also include li