英语PRE文化差异.ppt

THE DIFFERENTS BETWEEN WESTEN CULTURE AND EASTHEN CULTURE As we all know,westen culture and easten culture have much different,especially Chinese culture and American culture. So ,I will try my best to express the differents. FOOD CULTURE Food is people’s heaven,different countries have different food culture. in china people use chopstiks and foreigner use folk and knife. in china people like eating meal in one plate but foreigner like everybody have a plate and eating thireslves food. people like talking on table in china,foreigner always keep quite in china the table was shorter than foreigner diffrent from main food ,chinese like rice,foreigner like bread. STORY It is not a novel knowledge that culture difference exists between eastern and w estern countries. But not until I heard the lecture given by a Chinese scholar, who has been lived in Australia for several years, did I came to understand that how different it is. The scholar summarized that we, as Chinese, prefer to think in a spiral, casual way, while western people, more often than not, are fond of a linear, business-i s-business way. Supporting the idea, he named out examples he himself experience d while staying in Australia. Here are some excerpts. Firstly, line up matter. 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 Ch ina 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. Lin ing up has long since become part of their life that they scarcely doubt it or g row impatient while doing it.  Secondly, first come, first served. Though in words it is a normal principle her e in China, it’s mostly not the case in reality. Take an example of