中美文化差异英语作文

中美文化差异英语作文 Differences Between Chinese Culture and American CultureI have been living in China for twenty years. I was born in JiangSu province and alsogrew up in there. My family members were from different parts of China. My mom’shometown is at the Huabei plain which is the north side of The Yellow River. However myfather grew up in Nanjing the famous city which locates beside the Yangzi River.Most of people in southern China are used to have rice as their daily main food resourcebut northern China mostly has wheat. But no matter which part of China meat is not themajor food for us. Chinese people always believe that rice wheat vegetable fruit are thebest for our health. In contrast meat would give more troubles to our health for exampleheart attack high blood pressure and etc.But people in America mostly have meat as their food resource. The most important isthat they mostly have beef chicken shrimp turkey instead of pork and lamb. Inrestaurants you can easily find hamburger steak ribs with a little rice and a piece ofbread. I believe that the food style gives American people much more energy than wehave. They are much stronger than us. That is the factI have heard of an interesting story about Yao Ming who is one of the famous NBA playerright now. During his first season in NBA millions of people are attracted by his height andhis cute smile. However he is not strong enough to play NBA game yet He ever told thereporter that he likes to have soup that his mom makes for him. Soup could not help himonly steak cheese butter could make him stronger and gives him more energy. In orderto increase his competition he has to be used to American food style“Custom is the great guide of human life” wrote Scottish philosopher David Hume.Knowing the customs of a country is in effect a guide to understanding the soul of thatcountry and its people. As a foreign language leaner we should know the culture in ourtarget language’s country. Only in this way we can really learn the language well.People express their culture through traditions in food clothing recreation andceremonies through the education system and institutions of learning includingmuseums and libraries and through the arts encompassing the visual literary andperforming arts. As a result we will talk about the differences from some aspects.First I will mention the addressing. In China we will put the family names before our givennames and then in order to express our politeness we would like to add “sir” or “lady” ortheir title after the name. On contrast in America people would like to put their familynames after their given names and first names and they will put Mr. Mrs. Miss Ms Dr. orProf. before their names. It is foremost and first for us to know these differences so thatwe won’t make misunderstandings.And then we will talk about time conceptions. In America their living beat is quite fast sothey consider time is quite precious. So when they accept an invitation they would trytheir best not to be late but they also don’t go early to the inviters’ as this is considered tobe impolite and it seems to disturb the inviters’ preparation. In China we should also notbe late for the inviters. However in order to show our thanks and politeness we would goto the inviters’ house to help them prepare the meals and then we will have a happy timetogether. To open a conversation people in different countries have different ways. In China whenpeople meet their friends by chance they will say.” Where are you going” or “ have youeaten” and then they will go on talking about other things. But if you do this in Americayou will be misunderstood that you want to invite him or her. Americans would like to say”beautiful day isn’t it” to open a conversation even sometimes it is raining. It is notbecause the Americans can predict the weather but for the sake of customs.Let me come to the aspect of eating. Chopsticks are used for all meals in China. Food isplaced at the center of the table and may include more than one type of main dish to beeaten with rice. All the food will be shared by all the persons and won’t be divided intoseveral helps. While in America they would use forks and knives for their meals. Everyperson has his own dishes and they won’t share one dish together. They think this is quitehygienic and they will enjoy their meals comfortably. However what they eat is not sohealthy because they would like to eat a lot of meat and something with high calorie.Maybe it is good for them to obtain more fibers and keep a healthy body.Finally I would like to mention something about the difference in marriage. Besides theceremony for marriage has obvious difference----Americans will hold it in a church whileChinese will hold it in a hotel inviting their relatives and friends to have dinner----theirmarriage notion has quite a lot of differences too.From all these aspects we can think of many differences in values such as the notion ofsocial statues collectivism and socialism the treatments to children and so on. In fact wecannot say which one is right which one is wrong as we all know Americans and Chineseare not in the same group people on the opposite side of the globe can never achieve thethousandth part of the group on the other side of the globe. What we should do is to learnthe difference and then we can really learn the difference well.