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If you are in China, it is not rare to see that a crowd of people throng in the supermarket, trying to get service first. People in China do line up, the scholar said in a humorous tone, but they prefer to line up at a horizontal way. In contrast, in western countries, say, in Australia, people always line up, no matter in a big bank or a small grocery store. And they take it for granted. Lining up has long since become part of their life that they scarcely doubt it or g row impatient while doing it. Sixth China A Culture of Self- restraint Ambiguous of joy and sorrow Equivocal expression of “Yes/No”. Weak Personality Priority of harmony with others Seventh Game concept: Mutual trust-oriented business: business is based on trusting relationship among people rather than the rules of game Eighth Rock Dance Rb Blue Chinked- out Lyric greeting In English, people often employ the following expressions to greet each other “Good morning/evening/afternoon. “Fine day, isn’t it? ” “How is everything going?”. While in Chinese, we always say “Have you eaten yet?” “ What are you going to do?” “Where have you been?”etc. to show our consideration. Westerners treat them as real question. In Chinese society Such expressions include “你挺忙的，我就不多打扰了。” “你一定累了，早点休息吧，我要告辞了。”, etc. With these words, they may stand up from their seats. Chinese leave-taking is very short and quick. Western people think it so abrupt that they have not prepare for it. While moving to the door, Chinese employ expressions of apology like“对不起没，打扰了。”“对不起，占用你不少时间。” It should be noted that these expressions employed by Chinese guests to show concern for theirhosts. Tenth Handsome Steady Mature The cultural differences between Chinese and American First Dining tools --Chinese u