Cultural Differences

After conducting this substantial research, I believe that I have gained a lot of knowledge between the eastern and western cultures. I gathered information not only from the class module, but books and online articles as well. These references helped me realize how self-oriented the eastern culture is without being selfish. However, the information gathered also taught me how social and exclusive western cultures tend to be.

Some believe illness comes from Satan and not living according to God’s will. The Chinese culture puts little emphasis on individual feelings and a lot of emphasis on family devotion and loyalty. A like with the Hispanic culture, when making decisions about health care the whole family is usually involved. Religion and traditions are very important in the Chinese culture. They will usually follow in their ancestors footsteps.

There are cultural differences within all the communities that make up the world, we are constantly surrounded and reminded of these other cultures. In this paper cultural differences will be discussed from the film “Why Did I Get Married?” which is an African-American movie about the hardships one goes through in marriage, friendships, and trust. This paper is going to give specific examples of Hall’s perspective of culture on the screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions that are reflected in a particular pattern. Examples of both verbal and non verbal intercultural communication and how they relate to particular intercultural

Elements of Chinese culture include obedience and the idea of marriage. Because the mothers grew up in China and were raised upon tradition, they base their views on obedience and

Based on my experience in Eastern Europe and in North America, I fully embrace both Serbian and the different cultures that are in Canada. In the summer, I try to go to as many Serbian events as possible and at these events, there is traditional music, food and dancing which I enjoy so much. Unfortunately, I have not gone to many events of different cultures but I do like to educate myself about different customs and traditions in order to build on my awareness and knowledge of different types of cultures. I am Christian Orthodox in which I celebrate Christmas on January 7th and I always enjoy going to the church services for this Christmas celebration. Also, I fast where I do not eat dairy or meat products for a few weeks before Easter and

care nurturing differs between China compared to American child nurturing. What are the differences? The focus is on values, punishment, actions, and education. Values help mold the culture and shows how the parent chooses to bring their children up in society. Child care differences show us habits, morals, and the intentions of a child in these cultures which have different effects. We can compare childhood, adolescence, and maturity.

So, after I did all my research I concludes that China is a interesting country with many different customs than America. Such as, manly only eating plants due to religion. Preserving their foods because of the hot, humid climate. And always using the "scraps" of an animal in any way they

There are cultural differences in each culture, such as the eastern verses the western. There are other cultures as well as their own by understanding the norms and values of each culture to see how each are different and similar to one another. Eastern culture tends to be more traditional, orthodox because of the Asian culture and way of life. They have different norms and values; at a young age they are taught to respect elders and put honor, religion, integrity, and respect before themselves. Western culture is a bit more modern; they are not that strict on following the same way of life as the eastern culture. Both are different because they were both from different eras. Their cultures are different,

After conducting this substantial research, I believe that I have gained a lot of knowledge between the eastern and western cultures. I gathered information not only from the class module, but books and online sources as well. These references helped me realize how self-oriented the eastern culture is without being selfish. However, the information gathered also taught me how social and exclusive western cultures tend to be. (With the information mentioned in this paper I aim to not only mention TO BE CONTINUED)

The population, economy, histories, politics boundaries, and religion of China and the United States are not similar. Looking at the food culture between the two countries is very different. When a person speaks about the Chinese food culture, they need to praise the taste, color, shape of the Chinese dish, and smell. In china, most of the people take wheat and rice as their daily main food. They believe that fruit, wheat, vegetable, and rice are the best food to boost the health of a person. Consequently, meat is not a major food for them since they believe that it causes “health problems such as high blood pressure, and heart attack.” In China, the cooks need to decorate the food to make it more delicious than never expected. On the

China is a restrained society compared to the U.S., which is extremely indulgence. China controlled social order does not put much emphasis on recreation time, and control the satisfaction of their wants (Geert Hofstede, n.d). In the United States work hard, play hard mindset is exceptionally normal; therefore, the motivation behind overindulgence is that it is viewed as a reward. In America, a right to indulge for working hard should be earned.

I have chosen three stories of women growing up in relationship to thtime period in which they lived, their ethnicity,the customs of their countries and how they attempted to handle their life situations. Child f the Americas by Aurora Morales, gives us a view of a woman who is happy with herself and adjusts well to her life. The second is What It’s Like to be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith, a story of transition from childhood to adulthood for a young black girl having problems with both growing up and her place as a black woman in society. The third Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer is the story of growing up in South Africa as a repressed young black woman.

“America is a melting pot of cultures, bringing together foods from different parts of the world, but the food culture of those countries is often not accurately represented. American Chinese food is such a staple in American food culture, but it doesn’t imitate the diversity of food in China. “We use more flavor than Western culture. We do flour more creatively in China. We can make it a lot of different forms.” People are surprised by the Russian and Korean influences that affect northern China” (Steeley). Beer is a big thing in northern China, but the southern Chinese diet is pretty different. In some cities, places to eat gear more toward foreigners. These places try to serve American food, but it isn’t food we are used too. Chinese American food includes unusual pizzas or vegetable salads without lettuce. “French fries would show up randomly a lot, just like a

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