中美文化比较英语论文

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My view on the cultures between Chinese and American When it comes to the culture, in my opinion, it is hard to define since it's a large and inclusive concept. Every country has its own unique culture. We can't say the culture of which country is superior to others. Culture is a total accumulation of beliefs customs, values, behaviors, institutions and communication patterns that are shared, learned and passed down through the generations in an identifiable group of people.

The culture is rich and complex in each country and it can represent its own country to a certain degree. As for the native culture and

cross-culture communication, we should take it correctly.

As we know, people from different countries maintain their own cultural traditions. Then we should learn about the similarities and differences in different cultures if we want to get along well with people from different countries. We can often hear about some jokes result from culture diversity.

According to the study in the class, I learn more about the culture between American and China. The culture is complex that including knowledge, belief, art, law, education, family and so on.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " quoting from The Declaration of Independence. We can know about American values that they emphasize equality of opportunity, freedom and happiness. Americans consider that social relations are based on the autonomy of each person, which is quite different from China. As Chinese, we were inculcated that self-sacrifice puts the benefit of the group above that of the individual by our teachers. In other words, collectivist theory is praise highly in Chinese. In addition, Americans

believe that competition brings out the best of each individual. By contrast, cooperation is thought more highly in China. The Confucian "Doctrine of the Mean "urges that individuals should avoid competition to seek for harmony.

We have to admit that Chinese values are influenced by the Confucianism to a great extent, including modesty, loyalty, kindness, wisdom, filial piety and so on. Some concepts are positive while some passive concepts are included, such as conservatism, face-saving.

From my perspectives, I think our country developed slowly in the last century owing to the conservative thoughts. So sometimes we should select the essence and abandon the dross.

Family life can also reflect the culture of different country. It is an important part in everyone's life, while the family life both in America and China has changed a lot in recent years.

In American, traditional family is a nuclear family, consisting of a working father, a stay-at-home mother and children. As time goes on, new family patterns begin to emerge, including DINK, the single-parent family, the same-sex-parent family. I think the reasons can be owing to the developing society and the changes of people's concepts.