A comparative Study on Cultural Values betwee USA and China英语毕业论文.docVIP

A comparative Study on Cultural Values between USA and China What are cultural values? “Shared perceptions lead to actions that are regarded as appropriate and effective behaviors within a culture. The core of these shared perceptions is cultural value, existing only in the minds of people, which provides a norm of behaving, thinking, recognizing, socializing, deducing, evaluating, and make people orient themselves to it.” Cultures differ in what they value. [1] Nowadays, the number of contacts increases rapidly resulting in communication among people with different cultural backgrounds. As the world today is getting more and more globalized, there are more and more chances for people to communicate than ever before. With frequent intercultural communication, people find it important to be fully aware of the cultures of the people whom they associate with. As China is getting more developed in economy and many other fields, especially after entering WTO, our country is becoming more open to the world. [2] Thus, more attention should be paid to the western culture in such a condition. Only by learning their values can we succeed in cross-cultural communication. What’s more, it’s necessary for us to make it clear what our own values are, so we can introduce Chinese culture to foreigners. Because the US is the superpower in the world and one of the most representative western countries, the essay mainly focus on American values. By comparing values between America and China, we can better understand their way of thinking so as to avoid misunderstandings and potential barriers in cross-cultural communication. Obviously, there are quite a lot differences between the two countries’ values. First, the biggest difference is China’s collectivism and the US’s individualism. As we all know, individualism is the basic principle of the western capitalist moral values and the moral core of the modern bourgeoisie. According to a surv