社交上1. In the United States, with the first meeting of the person on the address him by name, or a descendant of the older generation can also be the case. In China, this kind of behavior has often been considered not respect each other's performance.2. In the United States, they often will not talk about each other's wages and age. This is the information about each other's privacy act, think it is not respect each other; and our country the contrary, age is often used as a greetings to the nature of language, and if the relationship between the near point, you can talk about the job such as wages.3. It is a very common practice we Chinese people say "Have you had your meal?" when they meet each other around the time before or after meals. In fact, it is a kind of greeting to communicate with each other. But foreigners cannot understand why you ask me this. They tend to think you want to invite me to dinner or I am not rich enough to feed myself regularly but that is my business not yours.饮食习俗Generally speaking, we Chinese think food is very important to man. People often associate food with important holidays and the chance to meet distinguished guests. The Chinese have the food culture of our own which are quite different from westerners. In the west, people pay more attention to the nutrition of food rather than the looks of it. The cuisineand table manners are quite different from ours in a great extent.1. In China, we prefer noodles, rice, dumplings as the main course. We like to taste a lot of delicious dishes together, rather than eat with individual plates. we like chatting and laughing when we are eating, and we think it’s warm and happy to eat this way; but in west countries, people like eating hamburgers, chips, pizza, pasta as their main course, and they eat with separate plates.2. Very often it puzzles foreigners a lot that we ask and talk so much when we order our food in the restaurant. The reason is that sometimes the food is very simple but the name is very obscure. For example, one of the dishes is called "Ants Climbing the Trees." But the food is simple potato noodles and bits of meat in it. It has beautiful good names so that you have a good imagination and association to let you have a good appetite. while most of western food has a simple and clear name and you know what it is when you hear the name. For instance, there is a traditional food call "fish and chips" in the UK. You see it is very obvious it is fried fish and potato chips.3. Generally speaking, we don't use much tableware when we have our meal in China. Mainly we have bowl, dishes, chopsticks and spoons. In serving English meals, they use so much tableware with different kinds and sizes.4.Western cuisine: strictly-followed recipe, ingredients of precise quantityChinese cuisine: casual mixing of ingredients intuitive acquisition of the skill through repeated practice价值观念1. Traditional values are the core of culture in each nation. In contrast with the West discreteness, the Chinese people advocate collectivism-oriented. For many years, the Han people form a strong sense to uphold the opposition to individualism-oriented. Individualism, that is from a personal point that is “for their own interests, disregarding others”.2. Chinese traditional culture advocates the absolute right coming from superiors. So far, the respect for elders and obedience to superior authority are still exist in the idea of the most Chinese people. However, to the degree of recognition and acceptance to the rights, there are great difference between Chinese and American; they trust their own judgments, not easily accept other people's ideas, especially the official view. They value the authority of the fact.3. Western culture is adventurous and exploration based. Westerners like to discover new things, invention and expand outwards.宗教信仰Religious culture in America and its culture occupies an important position. In America, the religious culture could be easily found in the majority of literary works. Americans believe in religion, believe in God.For them, the supremacy of God beyond everything and God is the creator and the ruler of everything in the universe. Chinese people also have their own religion. During the several-thousand-years history of China, waves of religious culture have been accompanied in language, customs and psychology. Some Chinese people believe in Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, and even Catholic and Protestant. However, the status and role of religious culture in the eyes of the Chinese people are unable to be compared with the religious consciousness of Americans.As long as you understand Western social life, it is easy to find that, whether Europeans or Americans, religion is not only with their lives, but also tightly linked with people's emotions. Moreover, the church in the America has become the spiritual pillar so that people spend a lot of time go to church to do worship every week.民族习惯Differences in national habits manifested in many ways. Chinese people often use the title “Lao”; the people a little more respected for the status are even called “Zhao Lao”, “Zhang Lao”. Chinese people generally do not address the elders by name, address them by name was considered as not self-cultivation and impolite. Coming to seniority in the family, it even cannot be tolerated; and Westerners call at the other way, Westerners would never be willing to say “Lao”. They all like to address each other by name, even between a descendant and the older generation. What’smore, when the Westerners see a visitor out, they never go out, and the Chinese people, in order to express polite, will always be very far out, and would like to say, “Take care!”。
