Cultural Contrast Between China and Europe
Cultural Contrast between China and Europe
When speaking about culture, we can simply find significantly differences among every countries. Culture enables people to find a group or other individuals who have the same values and beliefs. So different countries have different cultural backgrounds based on their own beliefs, in which people display many styles of clothings and appearances, food and eating habits, architectures and home lives, travel and leisure habits. This paper will study on the cultural contrast between China and Europe based on above points--summarized as "dress, eat, live and travel".
First of all, culture dictates how people should dress. The Chinese dressing style is decided by the traditional culture and the oriental body feature. Because the curve of yellow race’s body is not so obvious, and Chinese are fastidious about the doctrine of the mean, so our clothing is a straight overall with wide coat and sleeves, which designed plainly. The European style is determined by the western thought of pragmatism, simplify and personalism and the white race’s body feature. Their clothings shape is pretty distinct.
Chinese clothing color lays emphasis on ethic and asks for maintaining social order. So we wear dark color more, for the reason why it seems modest, low-key and not easy to offend others. When we dress showy, it indicates that we are ready for some important occasions. Just like red for wedding ceremony, white and black for funeral. But western-style color pays more attention to emotion and psychological implications. They just dress the color they love, and put on colorful and sexy clothings to show a good mood.
Secondly, compared with the Chinese diet which focus on "taste", European people lay stress on rationally eating. No matter how food colorful, good smell and tasty are, nutrition is first. Daily intake of calories, vitamins, proteins, etc is very important. Even if the taste is stereotyped, the
When speaking about culture, we can simply find significantly differences among every countries. Culture enables people to find a group or other individuals who have the same values and beliefs. So different countries have different cultural backgrounds based on their own beliefs, in which people display many styles of clothings and appearances, food and eating habits, architectures and home lives, travel and leisure habits. This paper will study on the cultural contrast between China and Europe based on above points--summarized as "dress, eat, live and travel".
First of all, culture dictates how people should dress. The Chinese dressing style is decided by the traditional culture and the oriental body feature. Because the curve of yellow race’s body is not so obvious, and Chinese are fastidious about the doctrine of the mean, so our clothing is a straight overall with wide coat and sleeves, which designed plainly. The European style is determined by the western thought of pragmatism, simplify and personalism and the white race’s body feature. Their clothings shape is pretty distinct.
Chinese clothing color lays emphasis on ethic and asks for maintaining social order. So we wear dark color more, for the reason why it seems modest, low-key and not easy to offend others. When we dress showy, it indicates that we are ready for some important occasions. Just like red for wedding ceremony, white and black for funeral. But western-style color pays more attention to emotion and psychological implications. They just dress the color they love, and put on colorful and sexy clothings to show a good mood.
Secondly, compared with the Chinese diet which focus on "taste", European people lay stress on rationally eating. No matter how food colorful, good smell and tasty are, nutrition is first. Daily intake of calories, vitamins, proteins, etc is very important. Even if the taste is stereotyped, the