Intercultural Communication between China and American.doc
Intercultural communication, from my point of view, it means if someone communicate with foreigners, how could he notice the differences and communicate with them gracefully because they have different languages and cultures. Nowdays, with the development of the world economy, the globalization has become an irreversible trend. Today's society, unlike the previous which is closed, is a society of cultural fusion. Everyone in the world is easy to communicate with others by using lots of chat tools. So, intercultural communication is a very useful course both in international trade and in understanding foreign culture.
When we talk about other countries, the most important thing we have to point out is culture which including religion, history, customs, rules, moral sentiment, academic thought, literature, art and so on. What people talk about, how they talk about it, what they see, and how they think are all influenced by their culture. Culture is a way of life that is developed and shared by lots of people who share similar sets of traditions, beliefs, values, customs and norms that are passed down from generation to generation.
For instance, American is influenced by religion, Protestant culture of Europe. Puritanism, rationalism and idealism have been the three main sources of American culture. It including individualism, freedom, equality, heroism and so on. The heroism is a very norm idea in American life, we can see it from Holly Wood movies, like Superman and Captain America. And equality is reflected in all social activities and relationships, it refer to everyone has same rights and chances in doing somethings.
But Chinese culture which influenced by Confucianism. It doesn’t like religion, but had made lots of principles for how deal with things and how get along with people in our daily life. The core of Confucianism is Ren, which including love, tolerance, kindness, modesty and so on. Meanwhile, Confucius also said that relationship between
When we talk about other countries, the most important thing we have to point out is culture which including religion, history, customs, rules, moral sentiment, academic thought, literature, art and so on. What people talk about, how they talk about it, what they see, and how they think are all influenced by their culture. Culture is a way of life that is developed and shared by lots of people who share similar sets of traditions, beliefs, values, customs and norms that are passed down from generation to generation.
For instance, American is influenced by religion, Protestant culture of Europe. Puritanism, rationalism and idealism have been the three main sources of American culture. It including individualism, freedom, equality, heroism and so on. The heroism is a very norm idea in American life, we can see it from Holly Wood movies, like Superman and Captain America. And equality is reflected in all social activities and relationships, it refer to everyone has same rights and chances in doing somethings.
But Chinese culture which influenced by Confucianism. It doesn’t like religion, but had made lots of principles for how deal with things and how get along with people in our daily life. The core of Confucianism is Ren, which including love, tolerance, kindness, modesty and so on. Meanwhile, Confucius also said that relationship between