Culture Difference 文化差异

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1、CultureDifferenceExhibitedinDailyLifebetweenEastandWest            XUYushiF02030035020339055   Contents     AbstractionP2 IntroductionP3 PartIWhatleadstotheculturedifference?P3 PartIIHowdifferentlydopeoplebehaveindailylife?PSection1GreetingPSection2ExpressinggratitudePSection3Din

2、ingPSection4SymbolizingP PartIIIWhatcanwedototreattheculturalgap?P   ABSTRACT TheculturesbetweenEastandWestaredistinguishedbyaratherlargescale.Thisdoesn'tnotonlymeantheopinionsorwaysofthinkingaredifferent.Actually,howdopeoplebehaveindailylifeisalsonotthesame,sometimeseventheoppos

3、ite.Thisresearchwillshowsomeofthetypicalexamples.   KEYWORDS Culturaldifferences,theEast,theWest IntroductionInmanyaspectsofourlife,weoftendividetheworldintotwoparts:theeasternoneandthewesternone.TheformerusuallyreferstoAsiaandthelatterincludesmainlyEurope,NorthAfricaandAmerica.W

4、edividelikethisnotonlybecauseofthegeographicallocationdifferences,butalsoduetotheculturaldifferencestoalargeextent.Inthefollowingparts,you’llseesuchdifferences,fromthecausestothecustomsofthetwosidesnowadays. PartIWhatleadstotheculturaldifference?TheculturesoftheEastandtheWestreal

5、lydistinguisheachotheralot.Thisisbecausetheculturesystemsaretwoseparatesystemsonthewhole.Theoriginoftheeasternculturesismainlyfromtwocountries:ChinaandIndia.Bothofthetwoculturesaregestatedbyrivers.InChina,themotherriveristheYellowRiverwhiletheIndianoneistheHinduRiver.Thesetwocult

6、uresweredevelopedforseveralthousandyearsandformedtheirownstyles.TheninDangDynastyofChina,theChineseculturegraduallywentoverseastoJapan,mixedintotheJapanesesocietyandshapedtheJapaneseculturenowadays.ThoughabitdifferentfromtheChineseone,itbelongstothesamesystem.Whenthetwomotherrive

7、rsgavebirthtotheeasternculture,anotherfamousculturewasbroughtupontheMesopotamianPlain----theMesopotamianCivilization.ThiscivilizationlaterondevelopedintotheculturesoftheAncientGreeceandAncientRome.Andthesetwoarewell-knownasthebaseoftheEuropeanculture.LiketheChineseculture,theEuro

8、peanonealsocrossedwaters.Whenthecolonist