Culture Difference Exhibited in Daily Life between East and West

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1、CultureDifferenceExhibitedinDailyLifebetweenEastandWest               Contents     AbstractionP2 IntroductionP3 PartIWhatleadstotheculturedifference?P3 PartIIHowdifferentlydopeoplebehaveindailylife?PSection1GreetingPSection2ExpressinggratitudePSection3DiningPSectio

2、n4SymbolizingP PartIIIWhatcanwedototreattheculturalgap?P  ABSTRACTION TheculturesbetweenEastandWestaredistinguishedbyaratherlargescale.Thisdoesn'tnotonlymeantheopinionsorwaysofthinkingaredifferent.Actually,howdopeoplebehaveindailylifeisalsonotthesame,sometimesevent

3、heopposite.Thisresearchwillshowsomeofthetypicalexamples.   KEYWORDS Culturaldifferences,theEast,theWest IntroductionInmanyaspectsofourlife,weoftendividetheworldintotwoparts:theeasternoneandthewesternone.TheformerusuallyreferstoAsiaandthelatterincludesmainlyEurope,N

4、orthAfricaandAmerica.Wedividelikethisnotonlybecauseofthegeographicallocationdifferences,butalsoduetotheculturaldifferencestoalargeextent.Inthefollowingparts,you’llseesuchdifferences,fromthecausestothecustomsofthetwosidesnowadays. PartIWhatleadstotheculturaldifferen

5、ce?TheculturesoftheEastandtheWestreallydistinguisheachotheralot.Thisisbecausetheculturesystemsaretwoseparatesystemsonthewhole.Theoriginoftheeasternculturesismainlyfromtwocountries:ChinaandIndia.Bothofthetwoculturesaregestatedbyrivers.InChina,themotherriveristheYell

6、owRiverwhiletheIndianoneistheHinduRiver.Thesetwoculturesweredevelopedforseveralthousandyearsandformedtheirownstyles.TheninDangDynastyofChina,theChineseculturegraduallywentoverseastoJapan,mixedintotheJapanesesocietyandshapedtheJapaneseculturenowadays.Thoughabitdiffe

7、rentfromtheChineseone,itbelongstothesamesystem.Whenthetwomotherriversgavebirthtotheeasternculture,anotherfamousculturewasbroughtupontheMesopotamianPlain----theMesopotamianCivilization.ThiscivilizationlaterondevelopedintotheculturesoftheAncientGreeceandAncientRome.A

8、ndthesetwoarewell-knownasthebaseoftheEuropeanculture.LiketheChineseculture,theEuropeanonealsocrossedwaters.WhenthecolonistsofEnglandsettleddownin