商务英语作业——中西方文化差异

Differences between Eastern and Western Cultural There are so many differences between eastern and western cultural, some of the differences are listed as follows:

Firstly,it is a tradition to use chopsticks for Chinese , but people in eastern prefer to forks and knives. Secondly, easterners choose to eat beefsteak,bread and salad，while Chinese people choose noodles，pancakes and rice. Third, in daily communication, Westerners are frank , but chinese are humility. Fourth, in China, different people believe in different immortals , some people believe in Buddhism , but they also believe in other immortals at the same time ,while in many western countries , people only believe in Christian, and everyone believe in it including the leaders of the country. Fifth, eastern people always have a bath in the evening or at night in order to relax themselves after one-day's hard work while western people take a bath in the morning so as to keep freshly for the whole day . Sixth , compared with the relationships, eastern people like to make friends, sometimes through their friends, parents, relatives ，while western people behave a little shyly，they do not want to make friends all the time. Seventh, As for way of thinking, people in eastern areas usually think indirectly ，they used to think about the things around them a lot and try to deal with things in a reasonable even perfect way; however, in comparison with the eastern people, people in the western areas often think directly, they pay

less attention to the things around them and care much more about themselves.

The most important different way is the family structure, family values and family education between the east and west, in the east children repay their parents’ sacrifices by being successful and supporting them in old ages, but the west children have no this awareness.

There are too many other differences between eastern and western culture that I can not list all of them, but I think the most important thing is that, we must respect their culture firstly.