Where are examples of cultural differences between China and foreign countries

Cultures come in all shapes and sizes, and so do languages. Language is the cornerstone of culture -- without language, there is no culture; from another aspect, language is influenced by culture and reflects culture. It can be said that language reflects the characteristics of a nation; it not only contains the historical and cultural background of the nation, but also contains the nation's view of life, way of life and way of thinking.

Due to the differences in culture and language. Understanding each other is not an easy task, and communication between different cultures often encounters difficulties. A young Chinese man went to the neighborhood pool to swim and came back a while later. The Chinese and a foreign friend who shared a room with him were surprised. He explained: "The pool is too crowded, the water is too dirty and should have been changed long ago. It's like boiled dumplings in sesame sauce." The Chinese friend who shared the room with him laughed, while the foreigner, who had neither eaten "sesame sauce" nor

had never seen "boiled dumplings", did not find the metaphor humorous at all. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know what to do with the people in my life. When Westerners describe a place as crowded, they often say It was papked like sardines (stuffed like sardine cans, overcrowded). Some Chinese can understand this analogy, but not necessarily appreciate its beauty, because few people have ever seen an open can of sardines, and not many people have ever seen a small, flat canning box tightly stuffed with neat rows of finger-length sardines. There are many examples of certain things or concepts that are present in one culture and absent in another.

Greetings and Farewells in Everyday Conversations

An American student studying in China encountered a Chinese friend walking by and asked him, "Have you eaten?" The American student smiled, nodded, waved goodbye, and walked away. He knew that his Chinese friend's words were equivalent to Hello or Hi in English, and if he hadn't known this, he would have thought that the greeting seemed to say, "I haven't eaten either. Come on, let's go eat something together." Or, "If you haven't eaten, I was about to invite you to my house." In short, greeting someone in this way sometimes means inviting them to dinner.

Social etiquette

Westerners are overly fond of saying Thank you and Please, which is unnecessary and even calls for impatience. On the other hand, Chinese people believe that the other person knows how grateful they are, so they don't need to say much; but to Westerners, not saying these polite words is a bit rude and not respectful enough to others. On the question of what people to praise, also reflects cultural differences. People often hear American women talk about how hard her husband works

, how well he does, and how many times he has been promoted and rewarded, and so on. She will also brag about how smart her children are, how well they are doing in school, how active they are in their stamp collecting groups, how they have performed in concerts somewhere, and so on. In China, people would consider this too vulgar. They don't brag about people in their own family in front of outsiders. When someone sneezes, the person next to them will sometimes say something. The Chinese might say, "Someone misses you," "Someone said something about you," or jokingly, "Who's cursing you"; the British or Americans say God bless you. God bless you".)

The cultures of China and the West have many differences and disagreements, and many of these customs have given rise to many jokes. However, different cultures in the same point is that these are for the human cultural development course of dedication, these differences between the East and West culture can not say who is better and who is worse, this is the objective formation of their existence will certainly cause the continued development of human culture, in today's world, any nation and the country is impossible to lose or get rid of their traditional culture. Therefore, let us *** together to maintain the development of various cultures, to maintain the stability of the country, the culture of the East and the West to promote each other, each other, so that, I believe, the cultural journey of mankind will go better.