中美文化差异,英语作文

中美文化差异,英语作文

篇一：中西文化差异比较(英文)

The difference between chinese and western culture

With the rapidly challging word, people throughout the world

have found it increasingly necessary to minimize the rate of

misunderstanding due to miscommunication in their contacts with

another. In the oast most human beings were born, lived, and died

within a limited geoographical area, never encountering people of

other cultural backgrounds. It might be said that technological

advances have been most effective in creating the borderless word,

the global community. As our world shrinks and its inhabitants

become interdependent, people from remot cultures increasingly

come into contact on a daily basis. It is no longer hard to find

situations in which membes of ince isolared groups of people. Now

these people may live thousands of miles away or right next door to

each other. So all the people are faced with the challenge of

understand this world. So when the east meet west, there are many

problems. Some problems are listed as follows.

First of all, the way of eating. All huaman beings have certain

basic needs. Our fundamental needs for things that keep us alive. This is the physioligical need. All individuals must eat in order to

survive. But what people eat, when they eat, and the manners in

which they eat are all patterned by culture. No society views

everything in its environment that is edible and might provide

nurishment as food. Americans eat oysters but not snail. The French

eat snails but not locusts. The Jews eat fish but not pork. The Hindus

eat pork but not beef. The Russiand eat beef but not snake. We all

have ideas about what kinds of food are good to eat. We also have

ideas about what kinds of food are bad to eat. As a result, people

from one culture often think the food that people from another

culture eat are disgusting or nauseating. Dislike is not the only

reason why some culture will not eat a certain food. In some clture,

certain foods are taboo. Sometimes the food taboos may be so

strong thrat just the thought of eating forbidden foods can cause an

indivdual to feel ill. We can also find culture difference in way of

bring up children treating the early, greeting each other, saying and

spending money before other people do in everyday, but in some

English-speaking countries, people do not agree with us. We chinese

may enjoy something that is not usually consider as edible by the

English-speaking people. Generally we perfer to have thing hot and

much emphasis on the taste. We eat from one plate when we are

eating with others, and we like to seat one by one, and in the shape of a round. On the opposite, some English-speaking contries, most

of the people like to seat in two rows, two people face to face. They

have their own plate. On the aspect of table manners, there are

many differences between chinese and English-speaking people. For

example, in some Englishi-speaking countries, Bread plates are to

the left of the main plate, beverage glasses are to the right. Salad

fork, knife and soup spoon are further from the

main plate than the main course knife, fork and spoon. When eating

bread rolls, break off a piece before buttering. Use the knife only to

butter the bread, not to cut it. They should not start eating before

your host does or instructs to do so. At larger meals, it is considered

okay to start eating once others have been served. When finished,

place the knife and fork together at five o’clock with the fork on the

left. It is considered rude to answer the telephone at the table. If

need to take an urgent call, excuse self and go outside. Try to eat all

the food you are served. But in China, the table manners are

different. Chinese traditionally eat rice from a small bowl held in the

left hand. The rice bowl is raised to the mouth and the rice pushed

into the mouth using the chopsticks. Some Chinese find it offensive

to scoop rice from the bowl using a spoon. If rice is served on a

plate, as is more common in the West, it is acceptable and more

practical to eat it with a fork or spoon. The thumb must always be above the edge of the bowl. The host should always make sure the

guests drinks are sufficiently full. One should not pour for ones self,

but should offer to pour for a neighbor. When your drink is being

poured, you should say "thank youand tap fingers on the

table to show appreciation. When people wish to clink drinks

together in the form of a cheer, it is important to observe that

younger members should clink the edge of their drink below the

edge of an elder to show respect.

Secondly, the way of communication. Form birth to death,