quantity是什么意思中西文化差异比较(英文)

2021年1月19日发(作者：十指)
The difference between chinese and western culture

With the rapidly challging word, people throughout the world have found it increasingly necessary
to minimize the rate of misunderstanding due to miscommunication in their contacts with another
.
In
the
oast
most
human
beings
were
born,
lived,
and
died
within
a
limited
geoographical
area,
never
encountering
people
of
other
cultural
backgrounds.
It
might
be
said
that
technological
advances have been most effective in creating the borderless word, the global
community. As our
world shrinks and its inhabitants become interdependent, people from remot cultures increasingly
come into contact on a daily basis. It is no longer hard to find situations in which membes of ince
isolared groups of people. Now these people may live thousands of miles away or right next door
to each other
. So all the people are faced with the challenge of understand this world. So when the
east meet west, there are many problems. Some problems are listed as follows.

First
of
all,
the
way
of
eating.
All
huaman
beings
have
certain
basic
needs.
Our
fundamental
needs for things that keep us alive. This is the physioligical need. All individuals must eat in order
to survive. But what people eat, when they eat, and the manners in which they eat are all patterned
by
culture.
No
society
views
everything
in
its
environment
that
is
edible
and
might
provide
nurishment as food. Americans eat oysters but not snail. The French eat snails but not locusts. The
Jews eat fish but not pork. The Hindus eat pork but not beef. The Russiand eat beef but not snake.
We all have ideas about what kinds of food are good to eat. We also have ideas about what kinds
of food are bad to eat. As a result, people from one culture often think the food that people from
another culture eat are disgusting or nauseating. Dislike is not the only reason why some culture
will not eat a certain food. In some clture, certain foods are taboo. Sometimes the food taboos may
be so strong thrat just the thought of eating forbidden foods can
cause an indivdual to feel ill. We
can also find culture difference in way of bring up children treating the early, greeting each other
,
saying
and
spending
money
before
other
people
do
in
everyday,
but
in
some
English-speaking
countries,
people
do
not
agree
with
us.
We
chinese
may
enjoy
something
that
is
not
usually
consider
as
edible
by
the
English- speaking
people.
Generally
we
perfer
to
have
thing
hot
and
much emphasis on the taste. We eat from one plate when we are eating with others, and we like to
seat one by one, and in the shape of a round. On the opposite, some English-speaking contries,
most of the people like to seat in two rows, two people face to face. They have their own plate.

On the aspect of table manners, there are many differences between chinese and English-speaking
people. For example, in some Englishi-speaking countries, Bread plates are to the left of the main
plate,
beverage
glasses
are
to
the
right.
Salad fork, knife
and
soup
spoon
are further from
the
main plate than the main course knife, fork and spoon. When eating bread rolls, break off a piece
before buttering. Use the knife only to butter the bread, not to cut it. They should not start eating
before your host does or instructs to do so. At larger meals, it is considered okay to
start eating
once others have been served. When finished, place the
knife and fork together at five o’clock with
the fork on the left. It is considered rude to answer the telephone at the table. If need to take an
urgent call, excuse self and go outside. Try to eat all the food you are served. But in China, the
table manners are different. Chinese traditionally eat rice from a small bowl held in the left hand.
The rice bowl is raised to the mouth and the rice pushed into the mouth using the chopsticks. Some
Chinese find it offensive to scoop rice from the bowl using a spoon. If rice is served on a plate, as
is more common in the West, it is acceptable and more practical to eat it with a fork or spoon. The
thumb must always be above the edge of the bowl. The
host should always make sure the guests
drinks
are
sufficiently
full.
One
should
not
pour
for
ones
self,
but
should
offer
to
pour
for
a
neighbor.
When
your
drink
is
being
poured,
you
should
say
you
and
tap fingers
on
the
table to show appreciation. When people wish to clink drinks together in the form of a cheer, it is
important to observe that younger members should clink the edge of their drink below the edge of
an elder to show respect.


Secondly, the way of communication. Form birth to death, communication plays an integral part
in
our
life.
There
are
some
language
problems,
including
the
different
styles
of
using
language
such
as
direct,
indirect;
expansive,
succinct;
argumentative,
conciliatory;
instrumental,
harmonnizing;
and
so
on.
These
different
styles
can
lead
to
wrong
interpretations
of
intent
and
evaluation
of
insincerity,
aggreeiveness,
deviousness,
or
arrogance,
among
other.
The
misinterpretation
nonverbal
signs
and
symbols
such
as
gestures,
postures,
and
other
body
movements. It is a definite communication barrier. But it is possible to learn the meanings of these
observable
message,usually
in
informal
rather
ways.
It
is
more
difficult
to
understand
the
less
obvious
unspoken
codes
of
the
other
cultures.
Language,
as
the
carrier
of
culture,
is
created
during the process of human beings’ productive labor and serves as the tool of communication to
convey
the
message
between
people.
However
,
it
has
been
endowed
with
magic
and
power
in
particular language acts. As the old saying goes, troubles come out of the tongue. Superstitious
people
think
that
the
language
itself
can
bring
about
fortune
or
misfortune
so
that
taboos
to
restrict the use of language are created. Anyone who violates them will get punishment, whereas
those
who
faithfully
obey
the
restrictions
of
language
taboo
will
get
protection.
Furthermore,
linguistic taboos change with the development of society .The paper firstly analyzes the evolution
of linguistic taboo. It is indicated in the paper that linguistic taboo exists in almost every aspect of
people’s
life
and
is
a
universal
social
phenomenon
in
China
and
Britain.
Both
Chinese
and