差异是在教育理念,人文环境,社会风貌,社会制度,传统方式不同。对文化的涉猎面有错层认识不同。
具有了千年悠久历史的西方文化,和中国文化一样,显得博大精深,蕴含着极为丰富的内容。
其中的以人为本,倡导理性、天职观念、公平竞争、注重法治、信守合同、现代管理等等思想,不仅对西方资本主义的市场经济形成、发展起到了重大的影响与积极的作用,而对中国社会主义市场经济的建立也不乏借鉴意义。
在西方传统文化中,人本主义是首要的和受到人们首肯的价值观念。
在中国人固有的意识和想法里,一味追求身心的放松,花费时间精力在娱乐活动上,是安于一隅的表现。而西方人则是追求精神生活,他们会在空闲时间开派对,放松身心;他们喜欢表现个性,追求与众不同。
现如今在西方,尤其是在年轻人当中,开始流行一种新的消费观念:buy experience,not things.(买体验,而不是东西。)调查显示,新鲜的经历带给人们的喜悦比商品带来的喜悦要更加长久。
美国康奈尔大学的一项心理学研究发现,新鲜经历或一项新学的手艺与一件新商品最初带给人们的喜悦程度不相上下,但是随着时间的推移,人们对物品的喜悦程度逐渐下降,而对旅行的回忆和新的手艺依然令他们兴奋如初。
首先是饮食方式的不同。中国的野餐会带很多不需要烹饪的方便食品。而西方很多都会带便携的炉灶在外面生活做饭。
其次是吃的食物不一样。中国人会吃零食和各种包装食品。而西方会准备一些半成品烧来吃或者烤来吃
最后就是餐具的不同。中国可能直接就吃了,不太会单独带餐具。而西方则会带餐具刀叉或者吃下午茶也会有茶具
中西方文化的差别:
(一)思维方式上方面,西方人注重思辨、理性、分析、实证,剖析整体再加以综合;中国人注重直观、整体、经验。在西方哲人看来,只有思辨性的东西才是最真实、最完善、最美好的。从古希腊时代起,自然科学家和哲学家们都把抽象思维和逻辑思维方式作为认识和把握事物真理的最基本手段,并把“分析学”或“逻辑学”视为一切科学的工具。这种思维方式,推动了西方科学的发展。
1、思维方式:
西方人注重思辩理性分析实证,剖析整体再加以综合;在西方哲人看来,只有思辩性的东西才是最真实、最完善、最美好的。
中国传统的思维方式,不是通过归纳推理,演绎推导,而是基于事实,凭借已有的经验和知识,对客观事物的本质及其规律性加以识别、理解和进行整体判断。与直观的思维方式相联系,中国人认识世界的方式是“体知”而不是“认知”。
2、价值取向:
西方人注重以自我为中心,重个人、重竞争;西方人的价值观认为,个人是人类社会的基点。每个人的生存方式及生存质量都取决于自己的能力,有个人才有社会整体,个人高于社会整体。中国人注重群体、社会、和谐。 中国人的价值观,强调群体意识,社会意识,个人利益应当服从社会整体利益,只有整个社会得到发展,个大才能得到最大利益。。
3、伦理道德:
西方人注重个人放任,创新发展,张扬荣誉;西方人崇尚个人奋斗,尤其为个人取得成就而自豪,从不掩饰自己的自信心、荣誉感和获得成就后的狂喜;西方文化鼓励个人开拓创新,做一番前人未做过的,杰出超凡的事业;西方人的家庭观念比较淡漠。中国人注重谦虚谨慎,不偏不倚。 中国文化在个人取得成就时,不主张炫耀个人荣誉,而是提倡谦虚谨慎,反对“王婆卖瓜自卖自夸”。在人际关系上,中国传统的文化则要求人们不偏不倚,走中庸之道,维护现状,保持和谐。
中国文化的核心是“天人合一”,中国人思考问题是用综合的思维模式。而西方人则不同,他们讲究的是二分法,喜欢把问题分开来看。这应当是中西文化最大的差异了。
中国的情感表达一般比较内敛,不会那么张洋,换言之就是每个人都搞好自己的事情就可以了,不会满世界乱嚷嚷;西方刚好相反,他们的变法多事是体现在肢体语言上,比如拥抱,亲吻,碰额头,吻手背书包等。
西方教育可能更偏向于自由发展,强调学生个性发挥,所以从历史上看,可能更容易诞生一些科学家,因为这些科学理论研究和发现需要这种教育环境,传统来看,中式教育文化更强调德育教育,讲仁义理智信,当然随着时代发展和进度,中西方教育文化也在深度融合和发展,中国也诞生了许多伟大的科学家,也强调学生个性化发挥,未来中国教育必然会有一条有着中国特色的成功道路
中国人在接受服务时一般没有给小费的习惯,西方人在接受服务时一般都有给小费的习惯。
中国人喜欢的色彩是红色,红色代表着喜庆。西方人喜欢白色,白色代表着纯洁。中国人喜欢大家在一起聚餐。西方人喜欢分餐制。中国人喜欢抢着付款,西方人喜欢AA制等。
中西方在礼仪上的差异,具体表现为:
1、家庭方面。
中国人习惯于几代人在一起享受天伦之乐,即使子女婚后与父母分开居住,相互之间的联系也很紧密。而在西方,一般是小家庭,子女成年,必须离家自食其力,结婚后一般与父母分开居住。即使儿女与父母同住,彼此之间关系平等,不依赖父母。
2、孝敬父母方面。
中国人认为,在生活上关照、侍奉父母是必须的。西方人虽然也热爱、尊敬、关心父母,但是并不像我们那样,过问父母的饮食起居。他们认为,父母有父母的生活,自己有自己的生活,彼此互相尊重就够了,过多嘘寒问暖,有干涉隐私之嫌。
3、对父母的称呼有差异。
在德国、瑞士等西方国家,孩子可直呼父母的名字。而中国人则认为直呼父母的名字是不礼貌的。我们一向有“子不言父名”之讳。
4、中西对待让座有差异。
中国尊敬老年人的具体表现,是在长辈、老人面前要讲礼让、懂礼貌。体现在公交车上,就是给老年人让座。现今,全国各地的公交车上,为老人让座已成为人们的共识,促进了社会和谐,是人民群众精神文明的具体体现。
美国以及欧洲很多国家,乘客自觉排队上车,不拥挤、不抢座、不在公交车上占用残障人士座椅。男士可能会“绅士”一番,让座于年轻女士,但大多数人却不给身旁的老人让座。同时,西方老人在公交车上,也不愿接受别人让座,非但如此,甚至还有老人主动给孩子让座。
5、时间观念存在差异。
西方人具有较强的时间观念,在商业活动中会对自己的日程安排提前做好规划,一旦约定好就按时执行,并且希望一切掌握在自己手中。
而中国人的时间观念和行动计划性相对较弱,即使有也是富有弹性的,日程安排比较灵活。在跨国商业活动中,中西方的这一文化差异表现很突出。
Difference is to teaching a concept, humanitarian environment, social scene, regime, traditional kind is different. Understanding of wrong to the dabble face of culture layer is different.
Had chiliad the western culture of long history, with Chinese culture, appear broad and profound, accumulate containing very rich content.
Among them it is with the person this, advocate idea of reason, bounden duty, fair competition, pay attention to law, abide by contract, contemporary managing to wait a thought a moment, form to the market economy of western capitalism not only, major effect and positive effect arrived since development, and to Chinese socialist market economy build also there is no lack of draw lessons from a meaning.
In western tradition culture, humanism is principal and be read aloud by the viewpoint of value of people agree.
In the Chinese's inherent consciousness and idea, go after the relaxation of body and mind blindly, the energy between beautiful take time is on recreational activities, it is the expression that is content with a corner. And Hesperian is pursuit cultural life, they can open a clique to be opposite in free time, loosen; of body and mind they like to behave individual character, pursuit extraordinary.
Be in nowadays now the west, it is especially among the youth, begin popularity a kind of new consumption idea: Buy Experience, not Things. (buy an experience, is not a thing. ) investigation shows, the joyance that the joyance that new experience brings people brings than commodity wants more long.
A psychology of university of Er of American health Nai considers to discover, the happy rate that new experience or a craft of new learning and a new merchandise bring people at first equallies matched, but the elapse as time, people falls gradually to the happy degree of article, and be like,still make them excited to viatic memory and new craft first.
Be dietary means above all is different. Chinese picnic can take the convenient provision that does not need cooking more very much. And the west can take portable cooking range to be born to cook alive outside more very much.
It is eating food next different. Meeting snack mixes the Chinese all sorts of food that pack. And the west can prepare a few semi-manufactured goods to burn will eat or be baked will eat
Finally is tableware is different. China may eat directly, can take dinner service alone not quite. And the west can take tableware knife and fork to perhaps eat afternoon tea to also can have tea service
The difference of square culture of Chinese and Western:
(One) face of thinking means upper part, hesperian is paid attention to think of differentiate, reason, analysis, demonstration, analyse whole to try again integrated; Chinese pays attention to intuitionistic, whole, experience. Look in western philosopher, the thing that thinks differentiate sex only just is the truest, the the most perfect, best. From Gu Xila the times rises, science home and philosopher people regard understanding and the basiccest measure that hold thing truth as abstract thinking and logistic thinking means, and " analytics " or " logic " the tool that regards everything as science. Means of this kind of thinking, promoted the development of western science.
1, thinking means:
Hesperian pays attention to the reason that consider debate to analyse a case of a physically strong patient running a high fever or suffering from such disorders as stasis of blood, analyse whole to try again integrated; Look in western philosopher,
The thinking means of Chinese tradition, not be to carry Baconian deduction, deduce derivation, be based on a fact however, depend on already some experience and knowledge, try to identify to the essence of external object and its regularity, understand and undertake whole is judged. With connection of direct thinking means photograph, the means of Chinese understanding world is " body knows " is not " acknowledge " .
2, value orientaton:
Hesperian is paid attention to it is a center with ego, weigh individual, heavy competition; The viewpoint of value of Hesperian thinks, the individual is the base point of human society. Of everybody live means and live quality depends on oneself ability, the individual just has social whole, whole of society of individual prep above. The Chinese pays attention to group, society, harmony. The Chinese's viewpoint of value, emphasize group consciousness, social consciousness, individual interest ought to be subject to social whole interest, only whole society gets developing, great gift gets most golden eggs. .
3, ethical morality:
Hesperian pays attention to individual indulge, innovation develops, make public honor; Hesperian advocates the individual struggles, gain success for the individual especially and proud, the self-confident heart that never conceals his, honor feels and obtain the rapture after achievement; Western culture encourages an individual to develop innovation, had not done forefathers one time, crackajack and transcendental career; The domestic idea of Hesperian is dimmer. The Chinese pays attention to modest discretion, impartial. Chinese culture gains success in the individual when, do not advocate show off individual honor, advocate modest discretion however, object " king mother-in-law sells melon blow one's own trumpet " . On human relation, the culture of Chinese tradition asks people is impartial, walk along the doctrine of the mean, safeguard the current situation, keep harmonious.
The core of Chinese culture is " day person syncretic " , the Chinese ponders over a problem is to use integrated thinking pattern. And Hesperian is different, their cultured is dichotomy, like to come to the problem look apart. This ought to be the difference with the biggest culture of Chinese and Western.
Affection expression of China is compared commonly inside collect, won't so Zhang Yang, those who change character is everybody does well oneself thing is OK, random shout of won't full world; The west is firm very contrary, their political reform is eventful it is body go up in limbs language now, embrace for instance, kiss, touch forehead, satchel of kiss the back of hand.
Western education is likely more deflection develops at freedom, emphasize play of student individual character, look from the history so, the possibility is born more easily a few scientists, because these are scientific academic research and discovery need environment of this kind of education, in light of the tradition, chinese style teachs culture to emphasize moral education education more, tell benevolence letter of wisdom of argumentation of a speech or essay, develop as the times of course and plan, western education culture also is in in deepness confluence and development, china also was born a lot of great scientists, also emphasize student individuation play, the successful way that prospective China education can have to having Chinese distinguishing feature necessarily
The Chinese does not have the habit of tip commonly when accepting a service, hesperian has the habit of tip commonly when accepting a service.
The color that the Chinese likes is gules, gules delegate is worn festival. Hesperian likes white, white is representing chasteness. The Chinese likes everybody to dine together together. Hesperian likes to divide eat to make. The Chinese likes to be being grabbed pay, hesperian likes AA to make etc.
Chinese and Western just is in the difference of ceremonially, incorporate is:
1, domestic respect.
The Chinese is used to a few acting people enjoying family happiness together, although live apart with parents after filial marriage, mutual the connection between is very close also. And in the west, it is little family commonly, children is grown, must leave home earn one's own living, after marrying, live apart with parents commonly. Although children is the same as with parents, the concern is equal between each other, do not depend on parents.
2, respect of give presents parents.
The Chinese thinks, go up in the life parents of keep an eye on, serve is must. Although Hesperian also is had deep love for, parents of respect, care, but do not resemble us in that way, the dietary daily life of bother about parents. They think, parents has parental life, oneself have oneself life, each other are respected each other enough, cross much inquire after sb's health, have the ill will of interference privacy.
3, have difference to parental appellation.
Western country waits in Germany, Switzerland, the child can breathe out continuously parental name. And the Chinese thinks to breathe out continuously parental name is clodhopping. We have all along " child not character father name " avoid as taboo.
4, Chinese and Western treats offer one's seat to sb to have difference.
China respects the incorporate of old people, be comity should be told before elder, old person, know courtesy. Reflect go up in the bus, give old people offer one's seat to sb namely. Nowadays, on the bus of countrywide each district, already became the consensus of people for old person offer one's seat to sb, promoted social harmony, be people spiritual civilization is specific reflect.
A lot of countries of the United States and Europe, passenger consciousness queues up to get on a car, not crowded, do not grab, do not take up on the bus seat of physical disabilities personage. Man may " gent " , offer one's seat to sb at young lady, but most person does not give the old person beside offer one's seat to sb however. In the meantime, western old person is on the bus, also do not wish to accept others offer one's seat to sb, not only such, even still the old person gives the child actively offer one's seat to sb.
5, difference of time idea existence.
Hesperian has stronger time idea, arrange to oneself program in the meeting in commercial activity make good program ahead of schedule, once had agreed,carry out on time, and hope everything masters in him hand.
And time idea of the Chinese and action plan sex are opposite weaker, although have also be rich flexibility, program arrangement is more agile. In activity of the business that cross a state, difference of square this one culture behaves Chinese and Western very outstanding.