中西方文化差异_2英文版

nullnullChina is emerging front and center on the global economic stage as a new member of the World Trade,Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and Shanghai will host Expo 2010. Moreover, China is becoming a major trading nation. Is Western culture ready to respect a country known primarily for population control and communism? nullChinese Culture, Western Culture asserts that as these events unfold, the Western world will naturally want to know more about China. People will have to filter through an excessive supply of information, and in some cases, misinformation, to understand a culture that has traditionally held so little of the Western world's attention. And what are the differences between Chinese culture and western culture? ConceptionConceptionWestern culture is based on individualism. For instance, in the US, you always talk about individual rights, instead of placing the whole society above your own self. Chinese culture is based on masses (collectivism). People placed country and family above your own self. ConceptionConceptionWestern culture is adventurous and exploration based. Westerners like to discover new things, invention and expand outwards. For instance, bungee jumping is considered adventurous and common in western culture. Chinese culture that is based on humanism and people. You will probably find no-one doing such a thing in China. ConceptionConceptionWest uses law to resolve people and people's relationship. You can never find 'law' well-established in China. Chinese uses ethics and tolerance (中恕之道) to resolve people and people's relationship,.For 2000 years, China is a land that's based on human relationship rather than law. ConceptionConceptionWestern culture is based on science, which attempts to resolve people and nature's relationship. The Chinese attempts to fuse the human and 'heaven' as one. (天人和一) to resolve the relationship betwen man and nature, ConceptionConceptionWest uses 'god' and religion to resolve human and spiritualism relationship. In case of problems with your own self, you just pray to god. Chinese emphasizes internal cultivation to resolve human and spiritualism. ConceptionConceptionWestern culture is a culture that expands and develop outwards. Chinese culture is A culture that expands internally rather than outwards. nullWesterner has more conception on space than on place. People always walk towards windows once come into an American house in the country side. On the contrary, let’s have a look at a traditional Chinese house. The court is usually surrounded by a long wall which has a group house behind. There may be a cabinet garden in the corner. It will be quiet and harmonious once you come into this private place. FoodFoodIn China, we prefer noodles, rice , jiaozi as the main course. In west countries, people like eating hamburgers, chips, pizza, pasta as their main course. FoodFoodChinese like cooking a lot of delicious dishes, then we set up the tables, put the dishes on the tables, sit together, and taste the dishes together, we don’t eat with individual plates. In western countries ,people eat them with vegetable salad, they eat with drinking (water or juice),and they eat with separate plates. FoodFoodIn China, we become full up when we finish all the food, then we don’t eat anything. But in west countries, people eat desserts after they finish their meals. In China, people don’t care dressing enough we prefer colorful clothes, we dress them in different places, some time many people don’t mind the places we will go, and dress more formal or less formal, and some people just wearing beautiful clothes, don’t make up. In west countries, people dress according their visiting places In daily times, they often wear casual clothes, but if they go to a formal places ,they often wear suits, ladies wearing beautiful dresses, pretty hats. No matter how old the ladies are, they always make up. Dressing My NotionMy Notion Some of the disadvantage of old Chinese culture: 1. Debase women and chauvanistic 2. An over-emphasis on past history instead of present (lacks pragmatism) My NotionMy NotionThat’s the differences I found and read from some materials. Though we know west countries have more advantages in living, I still believe that “East or west , home is best”, I still think China will always be my deeply loved mother. Chinese culture is intensive and has a long history. We need to cherish and carry forward Chinese culture.