中西文化的差异

中西文化的差异 Culture Differences Language is the production of social and the fruit of history and culture. It condenses a sense of society, history and culture and custom from generation to generation. Different kinds of culture background and culture traditional make west and east have cultural diversity in thinking, values, behavior and way of life. Language is the carrier of culture. Vocabulary is not only the concentration of cultural clues, but also the important part the language. It reflects the development and change of culture. At the same time, it also directly reflects cultural difference. In the process of 2000 years feudal society of China, Confucian thought has been in a deep- rooted dominant position. On the other hand, it also has a profound and enduring impact of Chinese society. The Chinese have always thought of self-devaluation as a classical life skill. This is the "golden mean"-- Confucian's basic norm of behavior.Golden mean is the perfect situation of Confucian. We should use Confucian’s benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom to treat our life. When we talk with somebody, we should consider the temperature, good, respectful, and be pride of humility. Therefore, the Chinese culture reflect the cultural characteristics of group, this group of cultural identity is not allowed to integrate their personal values above the group interest The values of Western countries can be traced back to at least Renaissance. The guiding ideology of the Renaissance is humanism that is, advocating individual as the center, promoting individualism first, trying to develop their own self-expression. The concept of modesty is negligible in western culture. People worship ‘strong’ ‘hero’ in their life. Only the capable person can be put in an important position. The person who lacks confidence can only be left behind or eliminated. Thus, Western culture reflects the cultural identity of the individual, such individual cultural characteristics advocating the interests of individuals values above the top of ,even over group interests. China's mass culture attaches great importance to the relationship between family relatives and friends, take it as the composition of the cell of society. Whereas, In Western countries, advocating an independent self-reliance. Chinese people attach importance to the traditional ruler and subject, father and son, seniority. Unlike them, In the Anglo-American countries, they have equal status between older and younger generations and do not care about young and old boundaries, and get along more like friends. The traditional concept of Chinese people has always been advocated, "Four Generations Living Together," "Family Reunion", since ancient times we have the good old maxim word "when your parents at home, you do not travel to distant lands. However, In the Anglo-American countries, 18-year-old children are still living at home and rely on their parents life is unthinkable, they must rely on their own hands to have a independent life. Similarly, the older the parents even if the loss of self-care ability, generally do not drag their children, and they often live in Blenheim. Different culture bring different values, Chinese people tend to be proud of old. Take Conversation with others, the older, the better it will get the respect of others. In our view, the elderly are not only the embodiment of wisdom, but also a symbol of prestige. In contrast to them, very few people are willing to claim that they are old in western countries. From the prosperity of them, "old" is a synonym of useless, and it connect the meaning of "archaic," "old elephant" together. When western people and eastern people talk about the same, different cultural background make people have different values. A lot of reasons led so many cultural differences between west and east. And the cultural difference is a barrier of communication between west and east. However, if we try our best and pay more attention to learn other countries cultural background, the barrier will disappear in a day!