英文论文中美婚恋观比较_英语论文

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Acknowledgments
At the completion of my thesis, I would like to express my deep gratitude and great appreciation to all those who have directly and indirectly assisted me in the writing of this thesis.
My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Ms. Chen Zhihong, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She has helped me in all the stages of writing this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form.5808
Furthermore, my thanks also go to all the professors and teachers in the school of foreign languages. They led me into the world of English language and gave me constant
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encouragement and unreserved help, whose lectures broadened my horizons and laid basis for my research on the paper.
Last but not the least, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.
In all, my heart swells with gratitude to all those kind persons in my life.
Abstract
There exist big differences between Chinese and American culture because of different patterns of history development. Chinese culture is based on the collectivism which lays stress on the collective interest above the personal interest. However, American culture centers on
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inpidualism which focuses on the personal freedom, equality and independence. Under the influence of these two core values and patterns of social developments, there exists a big gap between American and Chinese attitudes to love and marriage which is also reflected in the TV serials. From the angle of cross-culture, this thesis makes a comparison of American TV serial How I Met Your Mother and Chinese TV serial Down-to-earth Marriage to show the different attitudes towards love and marriage which form in different cultural backgrounds. Meanwhile, it also analyzes the purpose and significance of the different attitudes at three stages: love, marriage and porce. The underlying differences of American and Chinese cultures are presented in a comparative way.
关键词：集体主义，个人主义，婚恋观CONTENTS
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Acknowledgements (i)
Abstract (ii)
摘要 (iii)
1 Introduction.1
2 Cultural Values Influencing Views on Love and Marriage.2
2.1 Cultural Values in American.2
2.2 Cultural Values in China (5)
3 The Comparison of Attitudes to Love and Marriage in
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3.1 Brief Introduction to Two TV serials..9
3.2 Before Marriage..11
3.3 In Marriage14
3.4 Divorce16
4 Conclusion..18
Bibliography..19
1 Introduction
As Eric Fromm says, “love is the only sane and
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satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”Family as the most basic unit of human society is an important manifestation of marriage. They are parts of human social life. All the aspects of social life reflect the cultural differences. Therefore, the different attitudes to love and marriage come from the cultural pergences. It is known to all that China and America are the main representatives of eastern and western cultures formed in different histories running through the whole process of human development. People’s thoughts and behaviors are mostly influenced by their own cultures. They have the distinct characteristics of nationality, locality, historicity and the spirit of the time.
With the development of society, the cultural communication between China and America becomes easy and frequent. The traditional Chinese attitudes to love and marriage is suffering the shock of new social factor which associates with the only child policy. Meanwhile, with the process of culture blending, American culture is also
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This paper, based on the two TV serials How I Met Your Mother and Down-to-earth Marriage, aims to make a comparison of Chinese and American attitudes to love and marriage.
2Cultural Values Influencing Views on Love and Marriage
After World War Ⅱ, a series of movements, which were the American Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Liberation Movement, the Counterculture Movement and so on, shook the old ideology. Extreme inpidualism arose in America resulting in the Trust Crisis of American system
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after the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, Watergate Affair and large-scale democratic movement. It wasn’t restricted to any external factor. Moreover, in Extreme inpidualism, the meaning of personal life is to do what people like. Therefore, inpidualism in this period exhibited the negative and decadent side.
Extreme inpidualism was in vogue until the late of 1980s. After the Cold War, there were a lot of social problems forcing Americans to reexamine the relationship between personal value and social benefit. People still attached importance to the achievement of personal value, self-respect, self-reliance and self-improvement. But meanwhile, most Americans could consider other’s benefits above theirs in some situations.
Although American inpidualism went through many stages, the core of inpidualism never changed. That is the
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pursuit of freedom, human rights, self-reliance and equality. Modern American people not only inherit the tradition, but also promote the idea of inpidualism. No matter what things they do, they always keep to its principle. Inpidualism is regarded as the most distinct characteristics of America.
2.1.2 American Sexual Concept
The theories of the modern sexual science affected the Sexual Revolution. Moreover, at that time, the economic prosperity in American society changed people’s life style to a large extent. The desire for material and enjoyment was stronger than ever.
In the 20th century, the premarital sex happened frequently, and Women’s Liberation Movement
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further developed. Women had the courage to fight for the sexual freedom. People had no worries about sex due to the legalization of oral contraceptiveand abortion. Therefore, to many women, sexual activities became unfettered and permissive. Furthermore, the development of technology propelled the progress of media industry. The things about sex were spread over quickly and had a great influence on American society.
Based on the inpidualism, although the American family ties are weak, a main line running through American family value is an equal love. In American families, they focus on the equality. Under the influence of the inpidualism, family members are independent. They have their own right to make a decision, even though parents should respect their children’s wills. Everyone should be responsible for himself or herself. In American families, making a decision tends to be more democratic. Parents are no longer the
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Adhering to inpidualism, American people also lay stress on self-reliance and independence in the life of marriage. Although a couple gets married, they still manage their own finance by their own. They share their obligation, and one partner can’t interfere in another’s finance. They consider this a kind of privacy.
2.2 Cultural Values in China
As a representative of eastern culture, Chinese culture derives from Confucian Culture which has developed for several thousand years in China, exerting an edifying influence on every Chinese. Confucian Culture aims at pursuing harmony and achieving harmony.
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2.2.1 Chinese Core Value: Collectivism
The formation of Chinese Collectivism stems from three factors in brief: geography, life style and Confucian Culture.
First of all, geography is the initial factor. It is known to all that the Chinese nation was living and multiplying gradually in the middle or lower reaches of the Yellow River. Natural barricades prevent China from connecting with the neighbor countries, such as the deserted Siberian, Mongolian Plateau in the north, high mountain ridges in the west, and the Himalaya Mountains in the southwest. In mainland, there are also a mass of mountains, deserts and rivers piding the continent up. Due to this geographical pision, people have to live in their own limited areas for whole life. Therefore, people must live with neighbors in harmony. 英文论文中美婚恋观比较(4):。