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Are there any specific manifestations of cultural differences between China and the West?

Examples of cultural differences:

1, diet: Westerners prefer cold food for breakfast and dinner; Chinese people are used to eating hot or cooked food for three meals a day.

2, interpersonal relations: Westerners have a clear relationship with people and are used to the AA system; Chinese people talk about benevolence and righteousness, and like to invite people to pay the bill.

3. Life: Westerners tend to live independently; Chinese people have been living collectively since ancient times.

4, clothing: Western men in formal social occasions usually wear conservative style suits, white shirts, ties usually wear black shoes, Western women in formal occasions to wear dress suits; although the Chinese dress increasingly westernized, but also see a lot of people wearing tank tops, shorts, slippers, and other Western countries believe that the unseemly dress.

5, education: Chinese education, most of a closed education, have to comply with school rules; Western education is a completely open up the space of free thinking, they are in the play in the learning, learning in the thinking.

Cultural differences

Oriental civilization originated from the farming civilization, farming society in order to ensure the stability of production, the need to build large-scale water conservancy projects, in order to prevent theft, the need to build large-scale defense projects, such as the Great Wall, the Canal, Dujiangyan, Zheng Guodu, and so on, and so on, the construction of large-scale projects need to work together collectively and need to The construction of large-scale projects requires collective collaboration and the coordination of various relationships, on the basis of which a comprehensive and holistic concept is formed.

Because the land is the capital on which the farming nation relies for its survival, it will not give up until the last resort, and when faced with a disaster, it is not the thought of escape, but resistance, which has created the resilience and adaptability of the farming nation.

Western civilization originated from nomadic life, nomadic life by the water and grass and live, each herdsman is an independent individual, the connection between each other is not as close as the farming nation, the human feeling is also much lighter, individualism is stronger.

Since there is no need to coordinate anything with each other, the holistic view is much diluted. As a nomadic people, no matter migrating or hunting, the goal is very strong, creating the western people no matter thinking or doing things have a very strong goal.