中美文化差异小论文中英概要1.doc

‘;The differences between Anerican and China in education and value By Dinglan Abstract: Key words: Values are the core in the intercultural communication. Values are intangible. People speak of the same values in marriage but seldom express what their values are. The word value comes fromtheLatin valere, which means “to be worth”. Values tell us what is good, what is bad, what is right, what is wrong, what is true, what is false and how we will behave and evaluate behavior. Values are taught at home, often unconsciously, and reinforced by society. So we can say that values are generally culturally determined. When values are once formed, they will instruct people behaviors, attitude, and faith. People of different cultures, while having he same fundamental needs, like eating and sleeping, may have not only quite different wants like social and psychological but also quite different ways of perceiving their needs. Bothare convinced of the rightness of their ways, because they are behaving instinctively, naturally and properly according to their cultural logic. There is a potential for conflict because what is natural for one is not always natural for the other. Their divergence is further complicated by the fact that many of their behavior patterns are based on unconscious values and cultural assumptions about how life should be lived 2.1.1 Differences in Cultural Patterns Culture is a critical issue in intercultural communication. We have to do the cultural comparison when we are engaging in the intercultural communication study. Chinese culture is a typical Eastern culture. There are various definitions on ?culture? both at home and abroad. Larry, Richard, and Lisa in their book Communication between Cultures give their definition: “We define culture as the deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of t