跨文化 中西方家庭文化差异ppt课件.ppt

,Difference between Chinese and Western family culture,Family Culture is the unique way that a family forms itself in terms of rules, roles, habits, activities, beliefs and other areas.,Contents,Family educationFamily manners,*Family structure*Family education*Family manners,The American family structure is considered a traditional family support system involving two married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring. However, this two-parent, nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms have become more common. The family is created at birth and establishes ties across generations. Those generations, the extended family of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, can hold significant emotional and economic roles for the nuclear family.,Family structure in China : Nuclear family (a married couple, children) lineal family (直系家庭) joint family (数代同堂家庭) other types,Family education,America In America, parents aims are to train their children have the ability of adapting of environmental variety and the ability of living independently.,Family education,China Some Chinese parents only care about whether the children have a promising future, a good job, a good life or not. Based on these expectations, the majority of parents feel that their responsibility for their children is to create as good conditions as possible they can so that children will not worry about anything.,VS,Family manners,Children to parents,parents to children,parents to children,Parents responsibility and duty (Chinese) Loving the young is the most important part of Chinese Traditional Etiquette Education which concrete embodiments parents responsibility and duty. “父母是人生的第一位老师” “养不教，父之过” “棒子底下出孝子” “慈母严父” “一日为父，终生为父”,parents to children,Parents responsibility and duty (American)The humanized time boundary-18 year oldBefore 18: independent; Bringing up childrens adaptive to the societyAfter 18: no bound to raise children,parents to children,In traditional Chinese family, parents always lead their children to a right direction, seldom give time for themselves to discover and give a chance to make mistakes. But in western family, parents adhere to the equal status, they respect their childrens opinion although it is wrong.,Children to parents,Inherit Chinese excellent virtue-duty to parents(live with parents; polite)Western: parent is a individual as distinguished from spouse and children.,Conclusion,Family educationFamily manners,family culture is the typical manifestation of culture difference between the east and the west. Learning the family cultural difference can help us learn international culture better, promoting the communication and cooperation.,Thanks!,