Chinese Value
Di Gao
ELCB 0900
Ken B
1st Major assignment
1st Draft
10/8/2014
Chinese Values and Assumptions Have you ever been to China? What do you feel about that ancient country? I come from China and now I am living in the United States. Traveling to a foreign country is an interesting experience because I can learn different cultures. From my experiences travelling in the US, I have learned that the culture of different nations provides insight not only into aspects of the culture itself, but also into the values of the people. A country’s culture also reflects the inhabitant’s values. The most important to understand Chinese culture is they value peace more than anything else. This is also the pursuant ideal that people have nationally and the highest political standard of government. Many people, especially people from west, criticize Chinese government don’t pay much attention on human rights. However, Chinese people themselves don’t complain about the human rights, because the government brings peace and it already lasted about sever decades until now. They are satisfied. The reason behind this point could be completed, but history plays a crucial role. During three-thousand-year history, numerous wars and disasters killed and suffered people living on this land; gradually they believe that nothing is everything and the most valuable thing is living peacefully. As for other rights, they never really care. There is an old saying that “it’s better to be a dog living in a peaceful age than a man living in a troubled time”. On the hand, peace in Chinese people’s mind could be about indifference. Most Chinese people don’t like to make change even sometimes they get hurt. They think, “A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit”. So we see many helpless people don’t get any help and nobody feels strange. Another traditional value in Chinese people’s mind is loyalty and filial piety. The value is about the standard behavior. Traditional Chinese believe that the
ELCB 0900
Ken B
1st Major assignment
1st Draft
10/8/2014
Chinese Values and Assumptions Have you ever been to China? What do you feel about that ancient country? I come from China and now I am living in the United States. Traveling to a foreign country is an interesting experience because I can learn different cultures. From my experiences travelling in the US, I have learned that the culture of different nations provides insight not only into aspects of the culture itself, but also into the values of the people. A country’s culture also reflects the inhabitant’s values. The most important to understand Chinese culture is they value peace more than anything else. This is also the pursuant ideal that people have nationally and the highest political standard of government. Many people, especially people from west, criticize Chinese government don’t pay much attention on human rights. However, Chinese people themselves don’t complain about the human rights, because the government brings peace and it already lasted about sever decades until now. They are satisfied. The reason behind this point could be completed, but history plays a crucial role. During three-thousand-year history, numerous wars and disasters killed and suffered people living on this land; gradually they believe that nothing is everything and the most valuable thing is living peacefully. As for other rights, they never really care. There is an old saying that “it’s better to be a dog living in a peaceful age than a man living in a troubled time”. On the hand, peace in Chinese people’s mind could be about indifference. Most Chinese people don’t like to make change even sometimes they get hurt. They think, “A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit”. So we see many helpless people don’t get any help and nobody feels strange. Another traditional value in Chinese people’s mind is loyalty and filial piety. The value is about the standard behavior. Traditional Chinese believe that the