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Course Design(Thesis) of Chongqing UniversityCultural Compared Between China And U.S.Name: Class NO: 6 4 2Supervisor: Major: Chemical EngineeringStudent NO: 20116746College of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChongqing UniversityJune 2013ABSTRACT China and America, the most two important countries in the world, and the relationship between two countries become more and more important in recent years. But, there are so many similarities and differences between Chinese and American culture. China is a country that has a long history，in the long period cultural accumulation，the traditional culture with Chinese characteristics came into being. Although the United States dont have such a long history，American culture has become one of the mainstream culture in the world. In this article, Ill compare the similarities and differences between Chinese and American cultures from three aspects: foods，higher education and U. S. "return to Asia" strategic. I hope we can make some important and useful conclusions.Key words: culture, foods, higher education, U. S. "return to Asia" strategic1 Introduction1.1 Cultural and cross-cultural communicationCulture, its a spirit of a nation, means relating to a particular society and its ideas. All of us have our own culture.1. In recent years, with the process of globalization, especially the increasing of global trade, it is unavoidable that different cultures will meet, conflict, and blend together. People from different culture find it is hard to communicate not only due to language barrier but also affected by culture styles. So, as a Chinese, its very important to understand the western culture, we should learn each other, respect each other, only in this way, can we go further in this world, and make our country much better to compete with others.1.2 The importance of learning about the different cultures Absolutely, there are so many differences China and western cultures, but we can still find some similarities in both cultures, such as the opinion of everyone has a little dirty laundry inside, east and west home is best,2.and so on. We should learning these similarities better, because we can go closer with foreign friends through these culture and value in common. Understanding the differences is also important too. Maybe some behaviors is polite or friendly in our eyes, but people who comes from different culture regard it as rude, impolite. After we know these ,we can avoid some embarrassed situation and benefits a lot. We have already compared so many between China and America in our class, and here Id like to list three of these: foods, higher education, politics.2 Comparison2.1 Foods Chinese people think food is very important to them. The Chinese food not only is very delicious and tasty but also very pleasing to your senses and many of dishes have very beautiful and fancy names. The Chinese have the food culture of our own which are quite different from westerners. In the west, people pay more attention to the nutrition of food rather than the looks of it. And the cuisine and table manners are quite different from ours in a great extent. The foods differences is obviously, what make these differences? The different diet culture between China and the United States as a result of different cultural background differences in values and thinking mode.3. American is a typical immigration country, so people's eating habits in the United States is largely influenced by closed his pay attention to efficiency and diversification. However, Chinese people are influenced by traditional Confucian, Taoist thought, diet is not only a way of communication, at the same time, the different diet culture also contains a different psychological views and understanding of things with people. 2.2 Higher education4USs higher education was considered as the best education in the world. The Chinese and Americas education has extremely different traditional. Chinas education pays more attention to the instilling and accumulation of knowledge, cultivating the students respect to the knowledge and authority and building the ability to inherit the knowledge system. Compared with Chinese higher education, US pays great attention to train the students practice ability ti utilize the knowledge, cultivating the students question to the knowledge and authority and building the ability to extend the knowledge system.International cooperation and exchanges in education have increased year by year. China has the most students studying abroad in the world. New trends in Chinese higher education are attracting the attention of educators around the world and we are learning the style of USs higher education. Since China began to develop a Western-oriented university model at the end of nineteenth century, Chinese higher education has continued to evolve. With the tremendous economic development in China has stimulated reforms in higher education that have resulted in remarkable change.2.3 U. S. "return to Asia" strategicSince the Obama administration took office, Sino-U. S. relations have witnessed a smooth transition and maintained a good momentum of development. However, toss a few years has been the so-called U. S. "return to Asia", is the U. S. strategic focus from Europe to Asia-Pacific region as a direct response.6.For the past decade years, American involved in the international terrorist, left less energy in the Asian-Pacific region. But now, with the rise of the Asia-Pacific region, especially China. Given rapid economic development of Asian countries over recent years and the gradual formation of a new type of cooperation pattern, the United States is afraid to miss the express train of Asia's development and accordingly lose its dominance of regional affairs. The U.S. move to "return to Asia" aims to gain more interests from Asia's regional development and cement its dominant position in Asia. So, America has made it clear that the United States will shift its strategic focus to Asia in the future.Apparently, the U. S. "return to Asia" brings lots of challenges to China, economic, military, as well as political. Many scholars believe that the reassertion of the leading U.S. role in Asia is directed against China because only China's rise can pose a potential challenge to its hegemony. Furthermore, a few Asian countries hope to take advantage of the United States, especially its military power, to strike a so-called strategic balance with China. So ,Chinese have to extend our influence in these region to compete with America, and bridge gap between our neighbor countries. In face of the troubles which America have brought us, such as Diaoyu islands issue with Japan, Huangyan Islands with Philippine, in my eyes, Chinese government should take a firm stand on these stir. China is a large country in the world, we should present our importance to the world and maintain our dignity and benefits. Meanwhile, we should make our best efforts to ensure the peace in these region. The United States' status in Asia ultimately depends on its input. It should play a more constructive role in promoting the regional economic development and cooperation in multiple fields, instead of expanding its military presence to show off its irreplaceability because it has proven to be a dead end. Certain Asian scholars are worried that once the United States finds itself unable to maintain its leading role, it may extort more money from Asian countries in the name of protection and even stir up trouble by playing dirty tricks. Maybe there are some different benefits and values between two countries, but on the other hand, the understanding of each other maybe more important, win-win cooperation, lose in fight, its a common sense for us. The interests of the US and China increasingly overlap in East Asia, which may lead to conflicts, but integration as well. As the US and China have no choice but to co-exist with each other in the region, why not make it an opportunity to construct a new model of relations between big countries, instead of a battlefield of confrontations?3 ConclusionAs a university student , I hope I can study abroad in western countries on some one day , America is a ideal place for me, so, learning something about America before enter there its very important. During a time of almost four months, through this semester of study, i learned a lot of knowledge about America, especially the differences between China and America. We talked about many topics in class, such as festivals, religions, economics ,and so on. There is a saying, do in Rome as Rome dose, the importance of proficient in Americas culture is obviously, so, I think these classes help me set the stage for that day when I go there. I know whats the polite and friendly behavior, how to communicate with a America friend, whether a topic should we talk or not when we are get along.Perhaps the cultural shock is inevitable, of course, the symptoms of cultural shock can appear at different times. These stages are present at different times and we all have our own way of reacting in the stages of culture shock. Maybe I will experience a real pain from culture shock, but I have learned so much in our class, I have enough confidence to control it, I have known their thinking models, problem-solving methods, and many other customs, I believe I will adapt it soon. Moreover, we can find out the similarities between us, and learn to respect each other, instead of conflict, we can communicate with each other, because we all want a bright future, and we can do it! 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