CULTURAL DIFFENCES BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN COUNTRY 1153

CULTURAL DIFFENCES BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN COUNTRY 商1153小组：陈 英 陈柳余 张 莹 谢金燕 邝振雄 谢文昶

1、Diffences of Education

（1）School education Most of the school education is based on human thought, and they mainly cultivate students’ practical and analytical ability. What’s more, they encourage students to think freely, and they need to be responsible for their behaviors. Teacher acts as a guide in the class, and they usually discuss and explore the questions with students equally.

However, the class belongs to teachers in China. What the students need to do is listening carefully and taking notes. Students have a strong believe in teachers and text, without critical thinking. So, it is a way of irrigation to educate students.

Ø Chinese education spend most time and energy in teaching elite, and also attach great importance of enhancing basic knowledge. What really matters is that students must make themselves master of the knowledge.

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（2）Family education. Ø Parents in western will build up their children’s aware of independence and ability of live independently at an early age. In addition, the kids ought to take exercise when they are so young. The reason is that they pay attention to the free development of children, and they make attempts to make them into an adult who can adapt to various of surroundings and have the ability to live by themselves. Ø Many parents in China overlook children’s study, and then lose to cultivating their ability of living independently, adjusting to the society, health of psychology, aware of being a citicen and so on.

Parents in western country play more attention in children’s mental health, so they think it important to communicate with their kids. Moreover, they are concerned about what their kids really want in their inner heart. They always discuss with their children, and they will receive response. 　 On the contrary, most Chinese parents focus on kids’ physical health, and be indifferent with their children’s inner mind.

r e f f i D 2、 s e c n e e r of n o il gi

Religion is a unique cultural phenomenon, it’s an eastern and western culture in the process of historical development. There are many differences between Chinese religion and western religion. (1) Chinese religious belief has the characteristics of diversification, while western religion has the characteristics of unified.

Ø In the western religious system, god is the only god, and he created the world. Although western doctrines emphasize the afterlife and pay attention to suffering, both Christianity and Islam are resisting foreign oppression and against the infidel. Christianity has become the only religion in the western world since the destruction of Roman Empire, so the Christian thought it’s the only legal religion in the world. Christianity is an absolute and exclusive religion. Compared to the egoism of western Christianity, Chinese religious culture is more inclusive and diverse. Chinese religion has not only produced indigenous Taoism, also has Buddhism which came from foreign country. Because of the inclusiveness of the Chinese culture, so many religions in ancient China can be spread. Each religion has also maintained a state of peaceful coexistence and mutual respect. In China, whether foreign Buddhism or native Taoism, they all about passivity, and emphasize the afterlife.

In the formation of religious differences is closely related to the social background of that time. The introduction and production of Buddhism and Taoism is in the eastern Han dynasty. At that time the feudal autocracy has been formed in China, the ruler was badly in need of a way to calm the heart and needed a kind of religion to enslave people’s thought, so that he could maintain the rule. While western countries are mostly in the form of loose state city, the ruler of all countries hope that access to land population through the war. Therefore, establishing a unified country had become their urgent hope. In order to develop original religion and defeat the pagan, the religious believers colluded with the ruling class, and make appropriate changes on doctrine, therefore, the religion had become a tool of rule, but also it made the religion developed.

The cultural differences between Chinese and western·diet

Ø 1. Diet Concept Ø The Chinese diet is closely related to emotion and taste, they like connect the food with emotion and memory, so that the Chinese food has various kind of tastes and symbols. In the meantime, the westerners pay attention to nutrition and scientific diet. Nutrition and the requirements of the scientific, is two of the important standard when westerners evaluating the food.

Ø 2. Cooking methods Ø In west, the whole process of cooking is in strict accordance with the scientific standard act because of the pursuit of nutrition and science. But, in China, not only every place has its own major cuisine and flavor characteristics, every cook has his own cooking style.

Ø 3. Eating habits Ø Western food ingredients are separated in cooking, because they pay more attention on health and nutrition. While Chinese cook prefer mix many kinds of ingredients up. because Chineses think everything in the world has its own attribute, which need people to harmonic to reach the balance of food. Ø In another way, western people used to eat separately while Chinese prefer eating in the common dishes, they enjoy the happiness of sharing. V S

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