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Comparison of Chinese and Western Tip Culture Abstract: This paper is about the research of Chinese and Western Tip Culture. Chinese people and westerners have totally different attitudes towards tips, resulting from the difference of cultural psychology. Chinese society has a strong group consciousness and sense of hierarchy and the westerners have individual consciousness and awareness of equality. Keywords: Chinese, Western, Tip, cultural psychology, root 中文摘要： 本文研究中西方小费文化的差异。中西方人对于小费的态度差异源于文化心理的不同，中国人有着强烈的集体意识和等级观念，西方人个人意识和平等观念比较强。 中文关键字：中国，西方，小费，文化心理，根源 1. Introduction Tip originates from London in the 18th century, which was used to insure promptness (tip is short for “to insure promptness”) at first and later for the payment to reward the service personnel. Some scholars elaborate that tip can not reflect the level of civilization and it has nothing to do with personal quality. Some other scholars think that the particularity of service is the root of tip. And the particularity of service has the value which could equal to the tip. Though many scholars have analyzed the tip from different angles of view, these theories can not explain why Chinese and western people have different attitudes to the tip. In the paper, I’ll try to find the original of the difference between Chinese and Western tip culture. 2. Western Tip Culture The tip comes from the west and prevails in the service industry of western countries. It is very common that customers pay tips to the people who have provided service to them. Especially in America, you should pay tips when you are living in a hotel, dinning in a restaurant, moving, having a haircut or having shoes brushed. According to statistics, there are 35 service industries that need to tip in America and 29 in Spain, 25 in Canada, 24 in Italy and 10 in Denmark. In these Western countries, paying tips is not a kind of system and has no legal restriction. It is a kind of voluntary behavior and convention. Tips are an important p