My view on American Culture and
Inter-cultural Communication The United Stats is really a great and powerful country, and she is leading in many aspects. American Culture, from my perspective, insists of faith, habit, the social system, characteristics the way of thinking, and original native culture. On the other hand, American Culture is probably the means of cultural invasion by American government, but, actually, the American Culture is global culture and it shaped by people around the world. However, as a post 90’s, American Culture is closely related to my growth.
There are five famous symbols of American Culture. The first is the Statue of Liberty, which is also called Liberty Enlightening the World is a gifted given to the United States by France in honored of 100 anniversary of American independence, standing on Liberty Island in New York, symbolizes freedom, break the constraints of tyranny. The second is the Barbie Dolls, it is the most famous and best-selling doll in 20th century, which was the gift that I desperately wanted when I was a little girl, with the dream of being a noble princess. The third is the American Gothic, which perhaps not as famous as other symbols, but it is a copied interpretation of the solemn pride if American farmers. The forth is Buffalo Nickel, it is designed by American famous artist James Fraser in 1911, which became a kind if coin between 1913 and 1938. The paintings
on American traditional coin is mainly all previous president. But Buffalo Nickel didn’t follow, it print two images which was close to extinguish in American westward movement to commemorate----American buffalo and Native American. The last one is Uncle Sam, the artwork was created in 1917 as a recruiting poster for the U.S Army, At the time, the US was in need of more troops to help fight World War I. Later Uncle Sam was used to refer to America or American government, and it was widely used in press.
With more frequent cooperation, there are countless similarities between our Chinese Culture and American Culture. For example, we have different culture background, China has a 5000-year-history but the U.S has a merely 2000-year-history. So the difference is enormous and it is the gap between our two nations’communication. Due to different social culture, difference in the way we think is also a huge one. Chinese prefer to be comprehensive and stress holistic idea, however American turn to be analytically and individual priority. Customs discrepancy greatly affects our intercourse. Obviously, most Chinese people used to treat dog as a derogatory term however American people has lucky dog. Buddhism deeply rooted in Chinese culture and had a huge impact on Chinese literature. On the contrary, Christianity is the mainstream of American religion, also deeply rooted in American culture. The American Christianity is a secularized religion, stressing private faith and pluralism
