Can you give me an example of a cultural difference between Western and Chinese countries?

Chinese people emphasize the "inside", while Westerners emphasize the "outside".

Chinese people look forward to harvests and enjoyment through festivals, while Westerners prefer to use them to vent their emotions and express their individuality.

Thinking mode, the West focuses on rationality, thinking and analyzing details; the Chinese focus on experience and intuition to synthesize the whole.

Privacy, the Chinese people's concept of privacy is relatively weak, that the individual to belong to the collective, together to pay attention to the unity and love, care for each other, so the Chinese people are often very willing to learn about other people's sweet and sour, the other side is willing to tell the truth. Westerners pay great attention to personal privacy, pay attention to personal space, not willing to mention too much to others about their own things, more reluctant to let others intervene. For example, Chinese people often ask each other about their age, marital status, children, occupation and even income when they meet for the first time. This is a kind of politeness in the eyes of Chinese people, but in the eyes of Westerners, these questions are considered to be an invasion of their privacy.

Time, the westerners' view of time and money is linked together, the concept of time is money is y rooted, so they cherish time, often in the life of the time to do a careful arrangement and plan, and developed a good habit of going to appointments on time. The Chinese, on the other hand, belong to a multi-directional time habits of the country, in the use of time has a great deal of arbitrariness, generally not as strict as the Westerners in accordance with the plan.

The Chinese pay attention to modesty, in socializing with others, "humble yourself and respect others", which is regarded as a virtue, which is a polite phenomenon rich in Chinese cultural characteristics. When others praise us, we will often be self-criticized to show that we are modest and polite. Western countries do not have such cultural habits, when they are praised, they will always be very happy to say "Thank you" to show acceptance. Because of the cultural differences between the West and the East, we think that Westerners are overconfident and have no modesty; and when Westerners hear Chinese people dismissing others' praise of them or hearing them dismiss their own achievements, or even putting themselves down as worthless, they are surprised and think that the Chinese are dishonest.

Dining customs, the Chinese people have always had a good tradition of hospitality. On social occasions and in the banquet, the enthusiastic Chinese people often toast each other's cigarettes and wine. Chinese banquet, even if the delicious food on the table, the host is always used to say a few words "more tolerance" and other polite words. Sometimes the host will use chopsticks to clip food into the guest's bowl, and use various methods to persuade the guest to eat more food and drink more wine. In western countries, people emphasize respect for personal rights and privacy, so they will not do things that are difficult for others. When eating, they will never force you to eat whatever you want, and they will not use all kinds of ways to persuade their guests to drink, and they will not want you to get drunk.

Behavioral norms, such as the Chinese patting a child on the head as a sign of friendship, whereas in the West this is a very disrespectful thing to do to a child, and the parents get very angry about it.

Customs and traditions, the Chinese have the highest respect for dragons and consider them a symbol of the Chinese nation. In the West, there is a "dragon festival" where dragons are seen as evil. The Chinese regard red as a symbol of "joy" and "good luck", while white and black are "unlucky" colors. Therefore, during major festivals and weddings, people wear red clothes, hang red lanterns and put up red "happy" characters. At funerals, people wear black or white to represent mourning for those who have passed away. Westerners, however, are very fond of the colors white and black. Foreign brides wear white to represent holiness, and Chinese women usually wear yellow or purple to represent nobility when attending parties, while foreign women wear black to represent elegance. (With the deepening influence of Western culture, some of the Chinese people's concepts are also quietly changing will wear white wedding dresses)

Diet culture, the West is a kind of rational dietary concepts, regardless of the food color, aroma, taste, shape, and nutrition must be guaranteed, pay attention to how much calories, vitamins, protein and so on a day to be ingested. Even if the taste is uniform, it must be eaten because it is nutritious. China is a kind of beauty of the concept of food, the Chinese people on the pursuit of food is a kind of ineffable "realm", that is, the use of what is usually called "color, aroma, taste, shape, apparatus" to this "realm"!

Religion, China's cultural system centered on Confucianism, with Buddhism as the religion, and the West's cultural system centered on Christianity bring different cultural characteristics. The traditional culture of the country believes that the even number is lucky number "666" in China is the lucky number but the day of the devil's resurrection.

And so on and so forth ！！！！