Differences Of Chinese Cultures In Gary Althen'sAmerican Values And Assumptions

Richard Rodriguez article, “The Chinese in All of Us (1944)”, argues that many different cultures have contributed to making up the American culture. Rodriguez backs up this claim by sharing

Cultural differences are apparent from one group of people to another. Culture is based on many things that are passed on from one generation to the next. Most of the time people take for granted their language, beliefs, and values. When it comes the cultural differences of people there is no right or wrong. People should be aware of others culture and respect the differences that are between them. The United States and China are two very large countries that have cultures that are well known through out the world. There are many differences between the United States and China, but there are many contributing factors that shape the cultures of these two countries.

There are some common ways in which different cultures express their values. Cultures value different things. Some ignorant people think that this also means all cultures do not have similarities to teach or express values. In “Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning” it conveys how a professor recorded how American families talked about intelligence being something people are born with. In contrast, in Eastern families they talked about how hard work brought intelligence (Spiegel). This passage shows extremely different values, but when examined, researchers can see they both were expressed through speech. This discovery is not surprising

Most cultural values in Haitian and Chinese communities are observed as a sense of pride, identity, and respect to their cultures vital. In some instances however it is key to take a step back and evaluate how the respective cultures influence their general well-being. As it is important for the people to have peace of mind, and mundane that they be of great health. Some cultural practices observed in the Chinese culture such as

In “The Chinese in All of Us,” Richard Rodriguez describes multiculturalism in America in the 1950’s and how people of different cultures reacted to it. Rodriguez was born of Mexican descent from immigrants who moved to California in an attempt to find a better life. Being raised in America, Rodriguez was exposed and influenced by the various amounts of cultures surrounding him; he explored and developed as a person with a culture that went beyond his Mexican roots. Due to his embrace of multiculturalism, critics and people in general mocked and defamed him by saying to him “you have lost your culture” (Rodriguez 729). In “The Chinese in All of Us,” Rodriguez makes claims about the definition of culture and about how people reject multiculturalism in order to preserve their own culture.

According to Maya Angelou, Amy tan, Chia-Fang (Sandy) Hsu, Janell Hobson, Yong Chen, Felicia F. Thomas, and Fuchs Lawrence, culture is what brings a community together as one. In “Champions of the World,” “Fish Cheeks,” “Acculturation and communication Traits: A Study of Cross-cultural Adaptation among Chinese in America,” “Between History and Fantasy: Harriet Tubman in the Artistic and Popular Imaginary,” “Recreating the Chinese American Home through Cookbook Writing,” “African American and Socialization,” and “Immigration, Multiculturalism, and American history”. All the authors mention and talk about how important is to know once culture. For generation culture has been what makes America so unique among

The culture and American society is a new experience, but I have to learn to adapt. There is a lot of culture shock when trying to match American society. As an American we must learn to understand jokes and sarcasticism. It is a system of social sharing, learned the values ​​and norms; this is the design of the society to live. It affects the way we view the fl at, habits, preferences and our way we relate to other people. Value is a summary of the ideas that are on the good things, right and desirable. The target is the social rules and guidelines.

Sorry for the late entry. Divergent cultural characteristics is something I have dealt with all my life. Growing up Chinese American in Hawaii means that I straddled three different cultures and it has often led to internal conflicts and misunderstandings at home and socially. Often times I would struggle with which culture’s values I should heed and which viewpoint I should take. The book states that “cultural viewpoint is not an either/or dichotomy, but rather a continuum or range (McLean, 2010).” And more often then not I am in between the divergent cultural characteristics. The more I reflect on that fact, I am more inclined to think that most people are in between the divergent cultures as well.

This literature review will focus on the Chinese/western values and how they play into everyday life such as academic performance and social interactions.

There are many aspects of the Chinese American culture that other ethnic groups do not understand. Social hierarchy, an overarching aspect of the Chinese American community, is a paradigm that shapes Chinese American culture. This social hierarchy often affect personal decisions that may prompt a Chinese national to want to immigrate to the United States. Once here, many of these now Chinese Americans are forced to transact with the larger American population while negotiating their spot in their expatriate hierarchy. As a Chinese family immigrates into the US, they are faced with many decisions in regards to their acculturation and eventual assimilation. While negotiating these obstacles, individual Chinese Americans are faced with the dilemma of what customs they want to retain and what cultural nuances they want to discard. As there are many thriving Chinese-American communities in large US cities, it becomes imperative that social workers further understand Chinese-American culture.

The people in China are rich in culture just like other Asian countries. Therefore, to be involve with Chinese people in China for business, undertsanding their values and culture are very important. The first important thing to understand about Chinese is their devotion to collectivism. Chinese is trained from very early to consider himself as a dependent segment of a group, which is also called totalitarianism. It is helpful to think of the notion of family in China as a template applied to many networks of relationships that hold the society together. In the Chinese business context, the notion of family is about more than the emotional support and ties of a nuclear family. Family members, for

As a Chinese international student studies in America, I have experienced two different cultures, and I have seen Chinese practicing Chinese cultures in America, and it makes Americans think that Chinese are straight and do not understand their behaviors. This leads to questions of what the cultural barrier can cause and how the cultural barrier affects life of people who have different different cultural backgrounds? In Gary Althen’s article “American Values and Assumptions,” Althen pargues each group has its own culture, and he points out different American cultural values. Another article by written by Yaping Tang, “Polite but Thirsty,” Tang is a Chinese international student who comes to study in America, and he discusses the difference between Chinese cultures and American cultures by discussing different behavior practices. Every culture is unique; however, having many different cultural diversity in today’s society may cause cultural conflict within community since other people may have different viewpoints on your cultural practice and they may misunderstand your behavior. Therefore, it is important for people to understand and respect other cultural practice, and it is a good idea to adapt and learn other cultural values when people are in a new place. Overall, culture value is a collection of value that is practiced by a group of people in a country, and every group has its own cultural value to practice. Although it might not be shared or agreed by other people,

Though there are many differences between Chinese and American cultures there are a lot of areas where cultures can find common ground. This paper aims to show the cultural differences, compare those differences and demonstrate that while two cultures can be distinct they can work well together. The following will describe styles of communication, collectivism vs. individualism, authority vs. hierarchy, self-promotion vs. humility, and the differences between personal and professional lives in the US and in China.

It describes the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior.

Chinese and western cultural differences reflected in many aspects: first, integrity and individuality difference. Oriental countries emphasize holistic and integrated, while westerners pay attention to individuality. Such as traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, Chinese medicine emphasizes the whole, western medicine is different, from the point of view of anatomy, it attaches great importance to the whole of the local. Difference between the overall thinking and individual thinking but also in the daily conversation, such as in many reports, a Chinese to westerners eat at home, when the host asked today When eating Chinese food or western food, the guest very politely said: "whatever[AB1] ." In the west to understand such a reply, they said as soon as the word have a headache, don't know how to repair. Our deep thinking mode, considered with the main of manners, is respect for the host, but westerners don't think so, this is the difference. Conversely, Europeans who come to China, you ask him what they’re going to do today, he must not say "casual," will make clear his wish.