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发信人: meipeng(原来) 整理人: roy_young(2002-01-17 11:39:22), 站内信件 |
| When the east meet the west
McDonald's food, Jeanwest’s clothes, Nokia’s autonmobile, CocoCola’s drink, etc, have come into common people's life nowadays in our country. But one thing remains unchanged, this is China not America. The key factor is our culture, which roots deeply in this ancient land. Although airplanes and Internet make people closely connected, culture differences still form a great gap between those from different nations, regions and communities. Many people regard culture difference between China and America as a kind of difference between knife-fork and chopstick. What stands behind the two ways of eating? History gives us a good image of how the two cultures come into being, grow and develop. Feudalism of two thousand years teaches Chinese people only to obey the emperor rules. No aspect of people exits without rules. Even a simple visit to the neighbor must follow some instructions. Our people are tamed to be a people with politeness, modesty as well as torpidity and compliance. On the other hand, the American people, formed by immigrations from all parts of Europe, turn out to be a people with creativeness and struggle. In 1776,when the Americans are desiring for freedom from their British collony,the Chinese are still sleeping soundly in the cradle of fedualism,that is the difference of the culture. Culture difference between China and USA is only a tiny part of those differences existing in the world. What about the difference between the Arab and the West?” Why they hate us?”, title of latest edition of Newsweek simply points out this obvious and dangerous difference. Well, are we always so helpless in front of the culture difference? Of course not. In most cases, language is the main medium through which culture is transmitted. Without knowing a language, it is impossible for us to have clear picture of their culture. Thanks to the advanced technology, we needn't travel thousands of kilometers or spend several years to reach another nation. Most barriers between us and other people are demolished, while language still remains the one for us to take down. Although modern transportation and communications have reduced the world to a global village, there are still many fascinating cultural differences to discover and explore. ----  欢迎来我的主页
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