Traditional authority is power that’s legitimized by respect for long-standing cultural patterns and beliefs.

传统权威是通过尊重长期存在的文化模式和信仰而合法化的权力。

Now, you can also look at how different types of cultural patterns work together.

现在，您还可以了解不同类型的文化模式如何协同工作。

And, of course, speaking a language does not necessarily mean that someone understands social and cultural patterns.

所以会说某种语言并不一定就代表理解某个社会文化模式。

High culture, meanwhile, refers to cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite.

与此同时，高雅文化指的是区分社会精英的文化模式。

Mainstream culture includes the cultural patterns that are broadly in line with a society’s cultural ideals and values.

主流文化包括广泛符合社会文化理想和价值观的文化模式。

And within any society, there are also subcultures – cultural patterns that set apart a segment of a society’s population.

在任何社会中，也存在亚文化——将社会人口的一部分区分开来的文化模式。

These distinctions – and many more like them – are just one way of distinguishing between cultural patterns, in terms of social class.

这些区别——以及更多类似的区别——只是根据社会阶层区分文化模式的一种方式。

In recent decades, there’s been growing recognition that Eurocentrism – or the preference for European cultural patterns – has influenced how history has been recorded, and how we interpret the lives and ways of people from other cultures.

近几十年来， 人们越来越认识到， 欧洲中心主义——或对欧洲文化模式的偏好——影响了历史的记录方式，以及我们解释其他文化背景的人们的生活和方式的方式。