Differences between Western Culture and Eastern Culture

1, the difference between tableware: China people like to use chopsticks, while westerners like to use knives and forks.

2. Differences in ways of thinking: China people think abstractly, while westerners think concretely.

3. Differences in attitude towards life: China people emphasize spiritual feelings, while westerners pay attention to practicality. China pays attention to form, while westerners pay attention to content. China people attach importance to morality and feelings; Westerners value efficiency and rationality.

4. Differences in treating patients: Orientals think that patients are the center, relatives and friends don't visit them, and they think they lack sympathy; Westerners believe that patients need to be alone, and visiting them is considered as a collective examination.

5. Emphasize the difference of relationship: Orientals emphasize that "we" are a group; Westerners emphasize the relationship between you and me.

6. Different attitudes towards eating: Orientals eat art: color, fragrance and taste are all available; Westerners pay attention to science: they like to eat raw (nutritious). People in China often sit around the table as a family and take away what the whole table needs. Westerners, on the other hand, divide food into small portions in advance, one for each person, and eat their own, which is irrelevant. China people have a holistic concept, while westerners have an individual consciousness.

7. Differences in expression of love: Orientals are behavior-oriented, while Westerners are language-oriented.

8. Differences in privacy concepts: Westerners don't like to ask and spread other people's privacy, such as age, income, sex life, etc. But orientals have an inexplicable interest in personal privacy.

9. Differences in consumption views. Westerners advocate living for themselves, living for today, and dare to borrow money in advance for consumption; Orientals advocate saving money in the bank to live for the next generation and save money for children to buy a house.

10, the difference of competition concept: China's culture emphasizes the golden mean, too much is too late, and harmony is more expensive; Western culture, on the other hand, advocates competition and emphasizes that commercial warfare can defeat opponents and win their own development.

Baidu Encyclopedia-50 Thinking Differences between Orientals and Westerners