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英文作文 我对美国文化和中美文化交流的观点

英文作文 我对美国文化和中美文化交流的观点
英文作文 我对美国文化和中美文化交流的观点

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

of religion. In addition, difference in diet culture is also a part of our two nations’ culture difference.

Though there are numerous differences, with the high pace of development of economic globalization, people in two nations never stop filling the gap. The effort is not unilateral compromise, but joint effort, aiming at smooth communication. American start to love Chinese food, Chinese traditional art, Chinese Kongfu and even living in China. At the same time, in China, KFC, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut are everywhere, Chinese hold the most Iphone around the world, American blockbuster is the first choice when Chinese step into the movie theater, and Ford and GM aiming at China as the biggest market. The most important is Chinese dama is buying the world including the United States.

From the comparison and contrast, we can promote our culture development, improve our own value system, broaden our horizons, meanwhile, make our culture global.

For me, the Statue of Liberty is really impressive. The spirit to pursue freedom and break the constraints of tyranny inspires me to bear a good character and ethics, thus, becoming more firm to fight for my rights and more tough to face each challenge.

All in all, nowadays, Chinese culture and American culture share closely inter-culture communication, and I believe both side will have a bright and prosperity future.

中西文化差异英文

Differences between Chinese and Western culture As we know the differences between the our estern cultures and western cultures are quite obvious.I would like to state some of my opinions in this paper. I.difference in the thinking style People on the earth are homologous,but different people in different place have different performance on the way of thinking. Differences between Chinese and Western way of thinking reflected in many aspects.Such as the difference between abstract and concrete, reflected in their attitudes towards life can be understood as Westernersare more practical, and the Chinese are much more biased towards some spiritual experience. Westerners pay attention to logical thinking, but Chinese pay more attention to dialectical thinking and so on. As Chinese and western way of thinking are different, there are differences in expression of the order. For example,we can see that the names of western style are not like ours,they put their given names at the first place,while we put them after our family names,that is to say,we regard our family more important than ourselves,and it's the traditional way of estern thinking.Westerners have another way of thinking,they think that each person is important in our world and society,and a person should play a important role among our human beings. II.differences in daily communication Westerners are frank,but chinese are humility.The reflection between westerners and chinese on the treatment of praise is different.In the West, people can accept it generously. As the Chinese have long term impact of Confucian education, we treat others’ praise and recognition not often take the attitude of ourselves, or there is suspected of arrogant. When meeting acquaintances, chinese and westerners greet each other are also different. Chinese people often say "Have you eat ?" "Where are you going?"except the general asked”hello”. In western culture, this is not a greeting, but substantive issues. When British and American people meet,they usually use a polite phrase like "How are you?" or "Nice to meet you!" In addtion,when westerners accept gift from others,they are willing to open it and praise it directly,but chinese do not do like that. III.differences in customs Chinese people regard ourselves as descendants of the Dragon.Chinese have a supreme respect for the dragon, we think dragon is a symbol of our nation. In the dynasty time,Chinese emperors generally self-styled "dragon".However,in the West, the dragon was regarded as the devil, and it was killed by the legendary god of protection, so they set a day as a festival to celebrate the lifting of a disaster, and thank the protection of God.For this reason, when the students describe a person's lively, they say "He / She is full of vim and vigor." not"He / She is as lively as a dragon and tiger". Everyone has their favorite color, so does a country and a nation. Chinese like the red colour ,because chinese think red is a symbol of luck and enthusiam. But westerners perfer to the blue colour,they think blue can make themselves calm. Thus,the preferences of different colors can reflect the whole of a country’s aesthetic taste. IV. differences in eating cultrue Chinese and Western diets are very different, so the differences also have an impact on the national character. In China, a banquet, no matter what purpose, there will be only one form, that is, everyone sit around one table. People toast each other,and eat the same food in one plate,,It reflects the mutual respect between people even the traditional courteous virtue. Although from the health point of view, this dietary approach has obvious shortcomings, it is consistent with our

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