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* * Serlin Producer : 1.Chinese except friendships to be more lasting. 2.Different foundations(基础)for friendship 3.Westerns expect friends to be independent.(独立) 4.Chinese usually expect more from their friends. Chinese except friendships to be more lasting. For Chinese a true friendship endures（持续） throughout（所有方面） life changes. Chinese are friends even if they haven’t spoken for 20 years. If you shared something at one time, then all your life you are friends. This is the best of guanxi(关系), the Wide Web that connects Chinese through time and space. So, we can say Chinese invented the Internet long before Bill Gates was born. In North America, even the relationship in which people feel close and tell each other personal problems may not survive life changes such as moving to another city, graduation from a university or marriage. If the people do not see each other regularly, the relationship is likely to die. Different foundations for friendships. Chinese friends share “ things in common”: a task, a class, the hometown. Friendships are formed（形成） by people who work or go to school together. You may or may not like the person, but if he or she can do something for you because of his position（地位） or job, you can be friends. But in North America, business and friendship are kept separate（各自的）. The friendships are usually tied（约束） to specific（特定的） activities. A person may have work friends and leisure (休闲时) activity friends. Also friends tend to have similar financial circumstances（经济状况）, because friendship in the West is based on equality. Westerns expect friends to be independent. Why? It’s because their friendship is mostly a matter of（大约） providing emotional support（精神支持） and spending time together, so they do not feel comfortable in a relationship in which one person is giving more and the other is dependent（依赖的） on what is giving. A westerner will respond to（对…作出回应） a friend’s trouble by asking “What do you want