中美文化差異英文

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中美文化差異英文篇一：中美文化差異英語作文

Differences Between Chinese Culture and American Culture

I have been living in China for twenty years. I was born in JiangSu province, and also grew up in there. My family members were from different parts of China. My mom’s hometown is at the Huabei plain which is the north side of The Yellow River. However, my father grew up in Nanjing, the famous city which locates beside the Yangzi River.

Most of people in southern China are used to have rice as their daily main food resource, but northern China mostly has wheat. But no matter which part of China, meat is not the major food for us. Chinese people always believe that rice, wheat, vegetable, fruit are the best for our health. In contrast, meat would give more troubles to our health, for example, heart attack, high blood pressure, and etc.

But people in America, mostly have meat as their food resource. The most important is that they mostly have beef, chicken, shrimp, turkey, instead of pork and lamb. In restaurants, you can easily find hamburger, steak, ribs with a little rice and a piece of bread. I believe that the food style gives American people much more energy than we have. They are much stronger than us. That is the fact!

I have heard of an interesting story about Yao Ming, who is one of the famous NBA player right now. During his first season in NBA, millions of people are attracted by his height and his cute smile. However, he is not strong enough to play NBA game yet! He ever told the reporter that he likes to have soup that his mom makes for him. Soup could not help him, only steak, cheese, butter could make him stronger and gives him more energy. In order to increase his competition, he has to be used to American food style!

“Custom is the great guide of human life”, wrote Scottish philosopher David Hume. Knowing the customs of a country is, in effect, a guide to understanding the soul of that country and its people. As a foreign language leaner, we should know the culture in our target language’s country. Only in this way, we can really learn the language well.

People express their culture through traditions in food, clothing, recreation, and ceremonies; through the education system and institutions of learning, including museums and libraries; and through the arts, encompassing the visual, literary, and performing arts. As a result, we will talk about the differences from some aspects.

First, I will mention the addressing. In China, we will put the family names before our given names, and then in order to express our politeness, we would like to add “sir” or “l(fā)ady” or their title after the name. On contrast, in America, people would like to put their family names after their given names and first names and they will put Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms, Dr. or

Prof. before their names. It is foremost and first for us to know these differences so that we won’t make misunderstandings.

And then we will talk about time conceptions. In America, their living beat is quite fast, so they consider time is quite precious. So, when they accept an invitation, they would try their best not to be late, but they also don’t go early to the inviters’, as this is considered to be impolite, and it seems to disturb the inviters’ preparation. In China, we should also not be late for the inviters. However, in order to show our thanks and politeness, we would go to the inviters’ house to help them prepare the meals and then we will have a happy time together.

To open a conversation, people in different countries have different ways. In China, when people meet their friends by chance, they will say.” Where are you going?” or “ have you eaten?” and then they will go on talking about other things. But if you do this in America, you will be misunderstood that you want to invite him or her. Americans would like to say,” beautiful day, isn’t it?” to open a conversation even sometimes it is raining. It is not because the Americans can predict the weather but for the sake of customs.

Let me come to the aspect of eating. Chopsticks are used for all meals in China. Food is placed at the center of the table and may include more than one type of main dish to be eaten with rice. All the food will be shared by all the persons and won’t be divided into several helps. While in America, they would use forks and knives for their meals. Every person has his own dishes and they won’t share one dish together. They think this is quite hygienic and they will enjoy their meals comfortably. However, what they eat is not so healthy, because they would like to eat a lot of meat and something with high calorie. Maybe it is good for them to obtain more fibers and keep a healthy body.

Finally, I would like to mention something about the difference in marriage. Besides the ceremony for marriage has obvious difference----Americans will hold it in a church, while Chinese will hold it in a hotel inviting their relatives and friends to have dinner----their marriage notion has quite a lot of differences, too.

From all these aspects, we can think of many differences in values, such as the notion of social statues, collectivism and socialism, the treatments to children and so on. In fact, we cannot say which one is right, which one is wrong, as we all know Americans and Chinese are not in the same group, people on the opposite side of the globe can never achieve the thousandth part of the group on the other side of the globe. What we should do is to learn the difference, and then we can really learn the difference well.

中美文化差異英文篇二：中美文化差異英文版

1.美國人的自我意識和獨立意識很強。

Self-awareness and independent consciousness of Americans are very strong.

2.美國文化鼓勵人民開拓創(chuàng)新，做一番前人未做過的、杰出超凡的事業(yè)。

In America, innovation often is encouraged and people often do something nobody has done.

3.美國基礎(chǔ)教育實踐，注重創(chuàng)造的教學(xué)形式.

American education based on practice, pay attention to teaching form of creation.

4. 中國的家庭結(jié)構(gòu)比較復(fù)雜，傳統(tǒng)的幸福家庭是四代同堂。

China's family structure is more complex, the traditional happy family is four generations.

5. 中國人的婚姻相對來說比較穩(wěn)定。這是因為中國人把婚姻當(dāng)作一個嚴肅的道德問題，喜新厭舊，或是第三者插足都會被認為是極不道德的。

The Chinese marriage is relatively stable. Because Chinese people treat marriage as a serious moral problem, propensity or a third people involvement is considered highly unethical.

6. 新中國雖已建立了六十年，但傳統(tǒng)的君臣，父子等級觀念在中國人的頭腦中仍然根深蒂固。The traditional manner, parent-child hierarchical remains entrenched in the Chinese mind.

7. 主動幫助別人或接受別人幫助在西方常是令人難堪的事。在中國，主動幫助別人，給人以無微不至的體貼是一種美德。

Take the initiative to help others or accept others help is embarrassing thing in America. However, help others is a virtue.

8. 在個性自由與團結(jié)協(xié)作上：美國人十分珍視個人自由，喜歡隨心所欲，獨往獨行，不愿受限制。中國文化則更多地強調(diào)集體主義，主張個人利益服從集體利益，主張同甘共苦，團結(jié)合作，步調(diào)一致。

On the personality freedom and cooperation, Americans cherish personal freedom and don't want to be limited. Personal interest obedience collective interests and cooperation were advocated in China.

9. 美國家庭教育目的是把孩子培養(yǎng)成具有適應(yīng)各種環(huán)境和獨立生存能力的“社會人”；中國家庭教育的目的是把孩子培養(yǎng)成“才”，將來有出息，有個好職業(yè)，一生能在順境中度過。

The education purpose of American family is to help children to adapt to the environment and improve the independent ability, and finally make children become a "social person". The education aim of Chinese family is to make children become a person with ability, and hope they can have ambition in the future, have a good career, life can be spent in prosperity.

(You are very handsome! 或贊揚你Your English is very good時，中國人一般很謙虛地說：I do not think so! 或說 No ,no ,my English is poor. Thank you !; Have you had your meal? Where are you going? 他們則會認為你想請他吃飯或者干涉其私事，會引起誤解。美國人見面，通常打招呼道：Hello! How do you do! Nice to meet you.) （American culture：The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals' value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(開拓,經(jīng)營) and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is individualism: self-first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized individualism has its pros and cons, it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.

egocentric:.自我中心的,利己主義的

American citizens emphasize on achievements and respect heroes. They have great sense in their hearts to praise success and heroes.Personal achievements are one of those with the highest value in Americans mind.Americans have very strong senses of success.Success is the pursuit of most Americans,it is their attractive future and the incentives for moving forward.They believe that one's personal value is equivalent to his achievements in his career.Some high achievers in their career such as entrepreneurs,scientists,artists and all kinds of super starts became modern heroes.The process and result of how they strived have become the frame of reference of social culture value and the real life text book for parents to educate their children.

incentive:Serving to induce or motivate:

American society has great movements within itself. These movements are shown in two aspects:movements amongst locations and movements inside the society.The United States are relatively more open and have more freedom.Developed transport and the tradition of adventure and sporty makes a lot of American migrate from countryside to cities,from downtown to uptown; and from north to the southern sunny land,from one city to another.Unlike European countries,the social classes in America is not so stable.Further more,with the advocation of public education,movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible.Many people living in the states,no matter whether they are Native American or immigrants from overseas,have the same dream of changing their social class and make their lifetime dream come true through their own efforts.This is what they often called "American dream".

1. Self-awareness and independent consciousness of Americans are very strong.

2. In America, innovation often is encouraged and people often do something nobody has done.

3. American education based on practice, pay attention to teaching form of creation.

4. China's family structure is more complex, the traditional happy family is four generations.

5. The Chinese marriage is relatively stable. Because Chinese people treat marriage as a serious moral problem, propensity or a third people involvement is considered highly unethical.

6. The traditional manner, parent-child hierarchical remains entrenched in the Chinese mind.

7. Take the initiative to help others or accept others help is embarrassing thing in America. However, help others is a virtue.

8. On the personality freedom and cooperation, Americans cherish personal freedom and don't want to be limited. Personal interest obedience collective interests and cooperation were advocated in China.

9. The education purpose of American family is to help children to adapt to the environment and improve the independent ability, and finally make children become a "social person". The education aim of Chinese family is to make children become a person with ability, and hope they can have ambition in the future, have a good career, life can be spent in prosperity.

(You are very handsome! 或贊揚你Your English is very good時，中國人一般很謙虛地說：I do not think so! 或說 No ,no ,my English is poor. Thank you !; Have you had your meal? Where are you going? 他們則會認為你想請他吃飯或者干涉其私事，會引起誤解。美國人見面，通常打招呼道：Hello! How do you do! Nice to meet you.) （American culture：The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals' value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(開拓,經(jīng)營) and competition and the need of realistic and practic(來自:www.zuancaijixie.com 蒲公英文摘:中美文化差異英文)ality. Its core is individualism: self-first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized individualism has its pros and cons, it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.

egocentric:.自我中心的,利己主義的

incentive:Serving to induce or motivate:

中美文化差異英文篇三：中西文化差異英文

Differences between Chinese and Western culture As we know the differences between the our estern cultures and western cultures are quite obvious.I would like to state some of my opinions in this paper.

I.difference in the thinking style

People on the earth are homologous,but different people in different place have different performance on the way of thinking. Differences between Chinese and Western way of thinking reflected in many aspects.Such as the difference between abstract and concrete, reflected in their attitudes towards life can be understood as Westernersare more practical, and the Chinese are much more biased towards some spiritual experience. Westerners pay attention to logical thinking, but Chinese pay more attention to dialectical thinking and so on. As Chinese and western way of thinking are different, there are differences in expression of the order. For example,we can see that the names of western style are not like ours,they put their given names at the first place,while we put them after our family names,that is to say,we regard our family more important than ourselves,and it's the traditional way of estern thinking.Westerners have another way of thinking,they think that each person is important in our world and society,and a person should play a important role among our human beings.

II.differences in daily communication

Westerners are frank,but chinese are humility.The reflection between westerners and chinese on the treatment of praise is different.In the West, people can accept it generously. As the Chinese have long term impact of Confucian education, we treat others’ praise and recognition not often take the attitude of ourselves, or there is suspected of arrogant. When meeting acquaintances, chinese and westerners greet each other are also different. Chinese people often say "Have you eat ?" "Where are you going?"except the general asked”hello”. In western culture, this is not a greeting, but substantive issues. When British and American people meet,they usually use a polite phrase like "How are you?" or "Nice to meet you!" In addtion,when westerners accept gift from others,they are willing to open it and praise it directly,but chinese do not do like that. III.differences in customs

Chinese people regard ourselves as descendants of the Dragon.Chinese have a supreme respect for the dragon, we think dragon is a symbol of our nation. In the dynasty time,Chinese emperors generally self-styled "dragon".However,in the West, the dragon was regarded as the devil, and it was killed by the legendary god of protection, so they set a day as a festival to celebrate the lifting of a disaster, and thank the protection of God.For this reason, when the students describe a person's lively, they say "He / She is full of vim and vigor." not"He / She is as lively as a dragon and tiger". Everyone has their favorite color, so does a country and a nation. Chinese like the red colour ,because chinese think red is a symbol of luck and enthusiam. But westerners perfer to the blue colour,they think blue can make themselves calm. Thus,the preferences of different colors can reflect the whole of a country’s aesthetic taste.

IV. differences in eating cultrue

Chinese and Western diets are very different, so the differences also have an impact on the national character. In China, a banquet, no matter what purpose, there will be only one form, that is, everyone sit around one table. People toast each other,and eat the same food in one plate,,It reflects the mutual respect between people even the traditional courteous virtue. Although from the health point of view, this dietary approach has obvious shortcomings, it is consistent with our

"great national reunion".In western countries,the most obvious contrast of the Chinese eating style is buffet.That is,display all the dishes,people take what they need, not fixed to one seat for eating,and walk freely.In this way,it can facilitate the emotional exchanges between individuals, showing the Westerners personality and self-respect, however, eating their own food, do not disturb others,it is lack of the mood of Chinese people's party.

V. differences in religious belief

No matter Chinese or Westerners,people believe in different religion.In China, different people believe in different immortals,most people believe in Buddhism,but they also believe in other immortals at the same time. In many Western countries, especially in the Anglo-American, people only believe in Christian, and everyone believe in it including the leaders of the country,but the ruiling party’s members must be atheist in China. In addition, western countries’ people tend to think that singular number are lucky ,and they would like to plus one to the whole hundred and thousand,such as one hundred and one thanks, or have one thousand one things to do,etc. On the contrary, the traditional Chinese culture believes that the number of pairs is the lucky number. People use many number of pairs to express the good things ,good luck and so on..

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