中美文化差异

In China, People are used to have rice and wheat as their daily main food resource. Chinese believes that rice, wheat, vegetables, fruits are the best for our health. In contrast, meat would be giving troubles to our health. Illness such as heart attack, high blood pressure.Whereas, in American, People mostly have beef, chicken, shrimp and turkey. In restaurants, you can easily find hamburger, steak, ribs with a little rice and a piece of bread. Most Chinese families like to cook the meals at home. When having their meal,

the family members will sit around the table and share the dishes together. In contrast, in America, not many of the Americans have their meal at home with their family members or sharing dishes on the same table.

In China, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism are three ideologies which have greatly influenced the Chinese, such as the importance of education, respecting the elderly and parents, respecting the ghost and the gods in order to be well-being and the wheel of life. Due to the great influence of Confucianism, the Chinese always treat the elderly and their parents with respect. Therefore, Unlike

the Americans, the Chinese will not call the names of their parents.

Most of the Americans believe in Christianity and Catholic. The Christians and Catholics often pray to God. We can see that the ideologies that people believe are quite different between Chinese and Americans. In comparison, the Americans are more open-minded while the Chinese are quite conservative. They believe that God bless them and they will be sent to heaven after they died.