10 Differences Between Chinese and Foreign Cultures

1. When it comes to food, Chinese people pay a lot of attention to form, while Europeans are very practical. Chinese dishes are more varied, beautifully styled and tasty. Europeans are more practical and have simpler dishes.

2. Look at the difference in cutlery: knives, forks and chopsticks. The Chinese started using chopsticks as tableware a long time ago, while foreigners generally use knives and forks.

3.The difference in the way of thinking is: Chinese people think more abstractly, while Westerners are more concrete.

4. The difference in attitudes to life is that Chinese people emphasize spiritual feelings, while Westerners focus on practicality.

5, culture: our eastern culture is mainly embodied in the concept of "harmony". This concept focuses on the harmony of man and the sky, man and the harmony of society, man and man. It advocates that everything should be in accordance with nature and the way of heaven. In particular, it does not advocate excessive interference with nature. All human activities should be carried out in a natural state. In this state, we pay more attention to the spiritual life of human beings than to the material life. Our science is also more technologically oriented.

Western culture is more rational. It advocates to understand the world fundamentally, to use rational thinking to grasp the world, and to actively transform the world so that the world can adapt to us. In this kind of thinking, people pay more attention to material life. And science also pays more attention to the study of theory.

6, consumerism. People are born to seek a life, and life is all about quality. East and West of the consumer concept of large differences, the Western value orientation is to the quality of human life as the basis, advocating the "three for" and "three do not": one is to live for themselves, not for others to live, personality and freedom to seek quality; the second is to live for today, not for tomorrow, to live. Dare to take out a loan for overspending; three is to live for this generation, not for the next generation to live, not to tighten the clothes to save money for their children.

7, privacy. Westerners respect human nature and do not pry into and spread other people's privacy, such as age, income, sex life. Seeking and preaching about other people's privacy is the most immoral and offensive thing. But the Orientals have an inexplicable interest in personal privacy, love to discuss privacy in private, spread privacy through gossip, and even take pleasure in using privacy as a tool to fix people, which is a kind of cultural ignorance and backwardness.

8, the concept of birth. Europeans are reluctant to have children for fear that more children will affect their quality of life. So the general Western developed countries are negative population growth trend, population, resources and ecological pressure is small. There are still a lot of people in China who advocate for more children, raising children to prevent old age.

9, the difference in the view of competition. One is to compete or not to compete. China's traditional culture is feudal Confucianism culture at the core. Confucianism emphasizes the middle way, too much, to peace. While the market economy advocates competition, emphasizing the business war to defeat the opponent and win their own development. From the perspective of Confucianism, competition is immoral. Europeans believe that society needs competition, people need to compete with each other, competition out of motivation, competition out of talent, the economy will be in the diversity of competition in order to get rapid development.

10. is how to treat competition. Westerners believe that competition should be carried out in accordance with the law, advocating openness, fairness, transparency, and vertical competition, forward development, mutual incentives, with competition for human progress and economic development brought about by the power.

How to deal with the cultural differences between the East and the West:

The world's cultures are rich and diverse. In the process of globalization, the cultures of various countries and nationalities are integrating with each other and promoting each other, presenting a diversified and harmonious development situation. In the face of the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, we should treat them equally. We should have a communicative attitude. We should respect the value of our own culture as well as the value of other cultures, and advocate equal exchange and mutual learning. At the same time, we should have the attitude of abandonment, take the essence, discard the dregs, so that our own culture reflects the national character, highlight the times.