中西方文化差异 Differences Between Chinese And Western Culture.ppt

Differences Between Chinese And Western Culture As we know, there are many obvious differences between Chinese and western culture. Here I will express some opinions about this. Chinese culture is the collectivist culture. Chinese put the benefit of group the first place. The value of people can not be allowed to set up over the benefit of the group. On the contrary, western culture is the individualist culture. They spare no efforts to show off themselves. Differences in name Chinese put the given name after the family name. While in the western country, their given names were put at the place. We can see that Chinese regard the family name more important than the given name. It reflects that Westerners have a thought that each person is significant in our world and a person should play a important role among our beings. Differences in rendering thanks Generally, in China the family members hardly say “thanks. If say it, we will feel strange and have distance between each other. But Westerners can it on any occasion and between any people. When someone give they a cup of drink, they will say Thanks”. What’s more, when someone ask you Would you like something to drink？”Chinese would say a few words of courtesy although they would like. But in the west, people will say Yes, please if they would like and will say No, thanks if they would not. Different attitude to the privacy When see somebody for the first time ,Chinese care about their age, marriage, income and so on. But in western country people don’t like others ask they these question. They will think your prying is getting too personal. And they will not welcome you. Differences of greeting Chinese people are accustomed to greet with others saying that “Did you have a meal”. And if you talking about it with westerners, they feel you will invite them to a meal. In fact, they have many topics to greet others, such as weather, health, traffic, physical education and hobbies.