Learning difficulties from Chinese and American culture Question 1 Different culture of East and West can cause problems in each other. American culture trends to individualism. They need for more privacy and personal space. They do not independent of other people. On the contrary‚ Chinese culture trends to collectivism. They need to more close physical contact and close personal relationship or friendship. They concern about other people live for building up a close relationship. Therefore
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Personal Space Most social situations North Americans require a comfort zone of six to eight square feet per person‚ and any violation of that buffer can trigger a reaction (Bowen). “People use avoidance responses‚” says Robert Sommer‚ a psychologist at the University of California-Davis and author of the book Personal Space (qtd. in Bowen). But where does the standard of personal space come from? According to Sommer‚ “a comfort distance for conversation varies from culture to culture
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The Different Values Between Chinese Families and American Families Chinese families and American families have big impact in their children’s lives. Chinese families as well as American families value education. Chinese and American family feel family is important to them‚ but they have differences in the way they treat education‚ money‚ and how they treat family. The reason why American families believe education is important for their kids because they‚ as parents are responsible for their children’s
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The differences between Chinese family and American family Abstract：Family is the basic miniature of the social economic activity‚ and it is the basic unit that constitutes the society. The values of the society rely on people’s family values in a large degree. However‚ due to the difference of geographical and historical background‚ religion and belief‚ different nations have their own family values.A clear and direct contrast between Chinese and American family values can bridge over their communication
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Chinese parents and American parents differ greatly in their parenting styles and a noticeable difference can be seen in the success of their children. The children of Chinese parents often excel in various areas‚ including in their educational‚ musical‚ and professional lives. The children of American parents‚ however‚ usually have a harder time excelling in those areas. Chinese parents and American parents hold opposing philosophies about how they view their children‚ opposing methods about how
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Comparison of Chinese and Western Food Culture Food is closely related to people’s lives and it is considered the most important element in Chinese culture. Chinese food is famous all over the world too. American Chinese cuisine differs significantly from the traditional Chinese cuisine and even though the variation in taste can be so it is still attractive to many people. When it comes to food‚ Chinese people always care about the color‚ taste‚ smell and shape of Chinese dishes. In 1784‚ a
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email. For example: CBS1401‚ Chan Tai Man(陳大文)‚ Assignment 1 Task: Please translate the following sentences into target languages (English or Chinese) by yourself. Ensure that your translation fully accounts for the style and content of the source text‚ whilst conforming to established target genre norms. 1. Please translate the following sentences into Chinese by using specified translation approaches. 1) Looking for a quick way to feel lousy about yourself? Then forget the idea of a healthy diet
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this paper‚ a comparison on how Chinese and Caucasian Americans express their emotions. The covered cultures in this paper will be the Chinese and the Americans. By the Chinese‚ it will include those who are ethnically Chinese even though they may be resident in the United States. What was obvious is that the Chinese are not as expressive
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differences between them. The Chinese and American Revolution has many similarities and differences. Three similarities between them are the American Sons of Liberty is just like the Chinese National revolutionaries group‚ they both were taxed on‚ and they both had people smuggle. Three differences between them are instead of the British soldiers massacring 5 people in the American Revolution‚ the Chinese people who rebelled had massacred Manchu garrisons‚ also in the American Revolution there was no
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Nirali Rawal Brenda Williams Honors English 1 June 2013 Chinese Proverb I sit there bored to death‚ waiting for my teacher to start teaching. "When will he speak?" I thought to myself. Tick tock the time went by. Five minutes later‚ he proceeded to talk about what we were going to learn that day- the concept of velocity. I continued to sit there‚ zoning out‚ uninterested on what he had to say and FINALLY the bell rang! I approached to my next class and realized the Mr
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