What is western culture? What are its characteristics? How is the western strong culture formed under the background of globalization?

Western culture begins with ancient Greek culture, involving ancient Greek culture, ancient Roman culture, medieval religious culture, Renaissance, rational culture of religious reform and enlightenment, and multiculturalism of modern society. It has the characteristics of strength.

On the one hand, it is the great difference between Chinese and western cultures formed by history, on the other hand, the collision between Chinese and western cultures is inevitable under the impetus of globalization; On the one hand, it is the strong cultural strategy of western countries; on the other hand, it is the realistic positioning of China culture as a developing country. Since China took the initiative to open to the outside world in the late 1970s, China culture has been in such an embarrassing situation. As a response to the strong western culture, on the one hand, there has been a nihilistic Westernization trend of thinking that completely agrees with western cultural standards and abstractly affirms and specifically denies national culture, resulting in a crisis of national cultural identity. On the other hand, in the case that China's cultural values and cultural products embodying these values are difficult to penetrate into western countries, we can only do partial defense. "With the feelings of cherishing one's own culture, we will form a tribalism that returns to its roots, adheres to local culture and rejects foreign culture." [2] China's nationalism in the 1990s is an extreme response to western cultural universalism. This kind of contest between reinforcement and exclusion, exclusion and identity may be possible. Huntington asserted in his paper entitled "The Clash of Civilizations" that the root of conflict in the new world will no longer be ideology and economy, but the main boundary between human beings and the main root of conflict will be culture. The nation-state will remain the most powerful actor in world affairs, but the main conflicts in global politics will occur between nations and countries with different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. Culture is the embodiment of the life of every country and nation. Any country or nation stands among the nations of the world by virtue of its unique culture and the attraction and cohesion generated by this culture among its citizens. Losing the uniqueness of culture means losing cohesion, which means losing the legitimacy of existence. If you give up your traditional culture and blindly advocate the ideology and culture of a big country or a powerful country, you can only become its vassal. [3] In this sense, cultural issues have become a major issue involving national interests, and the fate of culture is also related to the fate of the nation. The strength of culture reflects the national strength of a country. How to carry forward national culture in the international community and seek development and self-improvement in the contact, exchange, collision and competition of various cultures around the world has become the focus of attention of governments and people all over the world. In fact, there are differences between Chinese and western cultures. There is also internal consistency. Cultural conflict and confrontation are inevitable, but this cannot prove that Chinese and western cultures cannot be integrated. The prejudice and long-term opposition between the two cultures can be communicated through mutual understanding of differences.