英文 刮痧中的中西方文化差异.docVIP

Scraping Therapy The film “Scraping Therapy” reflects the differences of value and culture views between westerners and Chinese. China society is influenced by Confucianism for thousands years. Confucianism is known as paying regard to human relationship and ethic. But in Western culture, people emphasize more on individualism, independence and equality. So conflicts in culture and value are unavoidable. These conflicts have shown in the movie. Conflict 1: Individualism and collectivism Individualism emphasizes individual goals and independence, but collectivism advocates the inseparable relationship and dependence between person and person. China is a collectivism country, but America is an individualism country. In movie, actually the grandfather did Scraping Therapy to Dennis. But in the court, Datong admitted it without hesitation. This reflects the inseparable relationship and dependence in a family. Bonds between two family members are strong. When a family member is in need, the other will give him a hand by nature and sometimes even the help is illegal or against conscience. Those sacrifices will be made to help friends as well. Now in China society, people who are in same relationship networks still benefit from each other. There is another example explaining this character of a Chinese. In the court, Quinlan witnessed that Datong beat his son. Datong was angry and accused Quinlan that he had been treated Quinlan as his friend but Quinlan betrayed him in the court. As an American, Quinlan considered what he had done was totally correct and Datong was a friend of him. Americans always make a distinction between public affairs and personal affairs. They are just about principle issues. This reflects a different individualism value of friendship. Conflict 2: Chinese’s emotion and American law In movie, Datong brought Dennis off the welfare horse to airport because he wanted to make his father to have one last look at grandson before leaving America. On Christ