中西文化差异英文ppt

Cultural differences in politeness between western and Chinese
1.Greeting and Parting
• In China, When people meet acquaintances or friends, we always say ,“Have you eaten yet?” What are you going to do?”
East&West
when we talk to the westerns, we must avoid asking some questions like this:
“How old are you?” “Are you married？” “How many children do
4. Thanks and Responses
In China,“Thank you” is not frequently used between intimate friends and family members because it may imply a certain distance between the addresser and the addressee.
• In English, people often employ the following expressions to greet each other “Good morning/evening/afternoon. “Fine day, isn’t it? ”How is everything going?”,etc.
Different cultural factors may result in cultural differences.

The first difference is that the architectures in Greek are perceptual and perfectly seek for plastic arts and formal beauty. However, the Chinese architecture is greatly influenced by ethic thoughts. The second difference is on history and culture between Chinese and western architecture is the spirit of democracy in the west and autocratic and hierarchical thinking in China. The third difference is the mysterious religious content of the western architecture and harmonic realism in China. The westerners believe in god and have a kind of extraordinary devotion to religion. However, the Chinese people believe that their fates will be in their own hands.
多立克柱式是古典建筑的三种柱式中出 现最早的一种（公元前7世纪），（另外 2种柱式是爱奥尼柱式和科林斯柱式）， 它们都源于古希腊。 特点是比较粗大雄 壮，没有柱础，柱身有20条凹槽，柱头 没有装饰，多立克柱又被称为男性柱。 来显示刚劲和力量。 最早的高度与直径之比为6：1，后来改 至7：1。著名的雅典卫城（Athen Acropolis）的帕提农神庙（Parthenon） 即采用的是多立克柱式。

The differences between Chinese and Weive VS the West: opening
Major Traditional Chinese clothes
Chinese Cheongsam旗袍
The cheongsam is a female dress with distinctive Chinese features and enjoys a growing popularity in the international world of high fashion.
Western-style clothes, pattern is split apart by the mutual suture pattern and cut into clothing.
Clothing in the west often acts as a part of human art.
Wide, easygoing, elegant is the basic elements of traditional Chinese costume.
In Chinese clothing culture, there some traditional and important color like red.
Chinese Tunic Suit 中山装
Chinese Tunic Suit, also called “Zhongshan Zhuang” in Chinese, is a kind of traditional male attire.
Modern clothes in China
Chinese wear pattern structure is mainly straight, few arcs and curve.

Cooking skills
Differences in wedding
Differences in painting
Differences in education
Chinese education
Western education
Teaching style
The standard of evaluating
But in most west countries; people live in a easy and happy
lives They get up late and go to work late too; they go to pubs; bars to have a rest after they finish their work; they enjoy their holidays; they seldom go to work during the weekend if you go to west countries; you can take part in their joyful night life
Culture differences between China and western
As we all know that
there are many
differences between
The culture
China and
includes many
Western;and I think the things;such as
Differences in thinking
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Differences in living style

至于午餐，却总是那么简单。人们通常吃一个三明治或热狗。有些人在附 近的快餐店吃。这顿饭不会持续很长时间。
Dinner is the biggest meal with potato, beef, chicken, soup, and some desserts. At this meal, people usually sit around the table and talk
As for lunch, it's always so simple. People usually have a sandwich or a hot dog. Some people also eat in a fast-food restaurant nearby. This meal won’t last very long.
招生前他们就努力学习接受精英教育。因此，他们善于获得高
分的数学，有强大的心理等。
• America
Americans regard education as the means by which the inequalities among individuals are to be erased and by which every desirable end is to be achieved. In America,the education system pays more attention to social skills than to
s.They are Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Ming and so on.
However, In the dynasty of Han, Tang, and Ming, China was the most powerful and advanced country in the world. Its economic, cultural, scientifi c and technological strength were well known. 中国历史约有5000年。 中国历经多次演变和朝代更迭。其中，有夏、商、周、秦、汉、隋、 唐、宋、明等。 而在汉、唐、明时期，中国曾是世界上最强大、最先进的国家，其 经济、文化、科技实力举世瞩目。

例题（14）When you receive something from a foreigner, you
had better___A___.
A. accept it
B. refuse to accept it
C. return it to him D. buy something in rerurn
A. receiver’s, left B. writer’s, right C. receiver’s, right D. writer’s, left
例题（5）When you write a letter to your father
in English, you had better call,“ C Father”.
❖ While the relationship between western people is relatively simple.（简单）
3. From the view of their thinking orientation:
❖ In western countries: Their thinking orientation（思维取向）inclines to individuals ;
A. Chinese B. American
C. British
D. None of the
例题（43）When you send some expensive presents to American and British people, they receive them_______. A. silently B. without doing and saying anything C. and take them away in silence D. and sing high praise for them in the face of the sender

❖ 中国人的饮食强调感性和艺术性，追求饮食的口味感觉，而不注意食物的营 养成分。
❖ The Chinese diet emphasize perceptual and artistic quality, the pursuit of the diet taste feeling, and do not pay attention to the nutrition of food.
Prayer
❖ 还有不同文化中不同的祷告仪式。 ❖ There are different culture in different prayer.
Different culture in different prayer.
❖ 东西方文化中不同的葬礼仪式
❖ Different in the form of a funeral. Chinese usually took the form of weeping mourners.Americans are in a manner of silence to honor.
2.Eat
❖ 西方人认为在吃东西时发出声音是不合适的。但是，在亚洲地区吃东 西发出声音则被看做是对厨师的赞赏和满足。
❖ In life some minor a neglected social practice can also be seen as the differences in Western culture.For example, Westerners think the sound while eating is not appropriate. But eat in Asian the sound is considered to the cook, appreciation and satisfaction.

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• Elegant living needs
proper cheerful, busy day
after sunset, sitting on a
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正。谢谢大家！
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“food is the heaven to the people”
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What Chinese people care about is the deliciousness of food
• According to our traditional idea, we tend to seek the relationship between two different objects, and make them change to each other.
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Chinese cooking methods : slip, stewed, burn, the cup, steamed, fry, crisp, stewed, grilled, stewing, blasting, fry, sand pot, wire drawing and so on.

In international competition Americans excel at team sports while Chinese excel at individual sports. Americans are constantly forming groups and joining groups to meet a variety of personal and professional goals. Typically, Americans participate in groups very differently from the way Chinese people do.
More meanings of culture

Way of life of any group
• • • • • • • Regional culture- north/south, rural/urban Religious culture- Christian, Buddhist, Moslem Ethnic culture- Han, Hui, Tibetan, Xinjiang Gender culture- male/female Economic class culture- farmer/intellectual/business Generational culture- youth/middle age/elderly Organizational culture – schools, education
Are Americans more individualistic than Chinese?

The conventional opinion is yes, they are. There is some truth to it, but it is an oversimplification. This idea alone is not a useful guide to predicting the preferences or behavior of Americans. Chinese educational culture is much more individualistic than American educational culture.