Intercultural Communication and Conflicts between Chinese and Western Cultures(英语论文).docVIP

Intercultural Communication and Conflicts between Chinese and Western Cultures Abstract: During the intercultural communication between Chinese and Western countries, examples of cultural conflicts are very common, seriously affecting the smooth progress of exchanges. So it is necessary to find out the deeper reasons and to take certain measures to develop the ability of intercultural communication, avoiding cultural conflicts. Key words: intercultural communication, cultural differences, cultural conflicts With Chinas gradual opening up to the outside world, the people and things from Western society more and more come into our vision. At the same time, foreign people are more familiar with Chinese things. The transnational, cross-national and cross-cultural economic and social interactions will be increasing, which provides us with a lot of opportunities to contact and interact with Westerners. We will know more about other countries’ cultures. But this is not a simple matter, because we are facing people from different and unfamiliar cultures and countries. Their way of thinking, way of life and behavior are different from ours. So it is inevitable that we will confront the emergence of the phenomenon of cultural conflicts in the interaction process. 1. Cultural conflicts that are very often in the intercultural communication ? There are many kinds of cultural conflicts in the communication between Chinese and Western people. We cannot describe them one by one. So in the following, only several ones that are very common are listed. 1.1 Conflicts in privacy aspects Chinese peoples concept of privacy is relatively weak. People like to share secrets with other people. They think that individual belongs to the group. People should consider the factor of solidarity. When people are together, they are often very willing to understand other peoples ups and downs, and the opposite side is also willing to be honest and tell other people about their worries. Westerners