我对西方礼仪的理解和认识

我对西方礼仪的理解和认识

土木建筑工程学院土木工程吴昊 2013111325

I think I hade learned a alt of knowledge and culture from the western manners class, I know many different habits and social etiquettes between china and western world.

Such as differences in communicative language, Dining etiquette difference, Dress etiquette difference and so on.Now let me tell you some interesting things about western manners.

Differences in communicative language:

The daily greeting, Chinese mostly uses "Have you had dinner yet?" "Where to?" And so on, this reflects a kind of intimacy between people. But for westerners, this greeting will make them feel suddenly, awkward, even unhappy, because Westerners will put this question to understand as a "questioning", feel each other about their private life. In the west, the daily greeting they just say "Hello" or by time points, to say "good morning!" Good afternoon. "Good evening!" You can. Meeting and the British would say: "today the weather is good!"

Dining etiquette difference:

Western dinner etiquette is also distinctive. In Chinese, most universal respect to the left, in the banquet guests, to the status of a very distinguished guest seated on the left, followed by arrangement. In the west is right for high, men and women interval and seat, the couple also separate and seat, female guests of the seats is slightly higher than the male guests seats, putting men in their own right of the female guests started chairs, to show respect for the ladies. In addition, Westerners sit when eating is that the bend, bow,, mouth closer eat very rude, but this is precisely Chinese usually eat way. When eating Western-style food, the owner does not advocate drinking big, China table wine is necessary things, with the wine drinking, sometimes in order to show respect to the other party, when drinking one cup of drink.

Dress etiquette difference:

Western man in formal social occasions usually wear a conservative style suit, wearing a white shirt, tie. They like black, so usually wear black shoes. Western women to wear the dress suit on formal occasions. Another woman out there is the custom of wearing earrings. In western countries, especially in the USA, people like

to wear casual wear, such as T-shirts and jeans.

Etiquette is a kind of culture, is the culture has the tradition of vertical and horizontal reference and integration. Along with the accelerating pace of globalization, economic background of high-speed collision, culture, western culture pours into China, Chinese traditional etiquette also unceasingly by Western etiquette culture shock. How to protect the traditional Chinese etiquette, and to its dross, reasonably effective integration with Western etiquette, as people continue to think and explore the topic. More and more people realize that Chinese and Western etiquette culture will penetrate each other, continuous development.

But in the fusion of Chinese and Western etiquette culture in the process, Chinese too keen on the West blindly, unconsciously fall into two errors: first, take the western