East and West PDF

8/8/2019 East and West PDF

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Understanding it Given name & family name

Fork, knife & spoon

Individual meal

Adventurous

Left to right top-down

Based in science

Rules & Laws Use of God to resolve

Family name & given name

Chopsticks and spoon

Everyone shares

Preservatives

Top-down right to left

Balance in nature based

Friendship Internal cultivation


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The west

1. Western culture is based on individualism rather than on mass (collectivism). For instance, in the US,you always talk about individual rights, instead of placing the whole society above your own self. This isclearly different in China where a country, society or family are placed above your own self.

2. Western culture is adventurous and exploration based. Westerners like to discover new things,invention and expand outwards. For instance, bungee jumping is considered adventurous and commonin western culture, but you will probably find no-one doing such a thing in China.

3. Western culture is based on science, which attempts to resolve people and nature's relationship.

4. West uses law to resolve people and people's relationship. You can never find 'law' well-established inChina. For 2000 years, China is a land that's based on human relationship rather than law.

5. West uses 'god' and religion to resolve human and spiritualism relationship. In case of problems withyour own self, you just pray to god.

6. A culture that expands and develop outwards.


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The east

1. A culture based on masses (collectivism). People placed country and family above your own self.

2. A culture that is based on humanism and people

3. To resolve the relationship between man and nature, the Chinese attempts to fuse the human and'heaven' as one. ()

4. To resolve people and people's relationship, Chinese uses ethics and tolerance ()

5. To resolve human and spiritualism, Chinese emphasizes internal cultivation ()

6. A focus on balance and mean. By 'mean', it means 'middle way'. You don't go into extremism. Peace isalways honoured.

7. Pay homage to heaven and earth, as well as bearing a remembrance to the homeland. (,) This was accorded to the fact that Chinese had been a farming civilization and therefore will bemore prone to remember their land.

8. A culture that expands internally rather than outwards.Some of the disadvantage of old Chinese culture:


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Contacts

Connections and contacts This is probably the most true one of the bunch. AnAsian will know an Asian who knows an Asian who knows an Asian who knowsan Asianetc.


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East VS West

The perception of each other how Westerns(Germans) see Chinese


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Party

Chinese parties almost always include a dinner party and these take place over a roundtable. The round table is kept intact at other places too bars and clubs and KTVs.

Its more of a Lets talk in our group rather than Lets mingle and meet people.


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Punctuality

Punctuality We run on Asian time.


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Queuing

Queuing on a line


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Restaurant

Noise level inside a restaurant


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Telling the truth

Telling the truth Most Chinese will avoid confrontation as much as possible.Hence this illustration.


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Travelling

Travelling and recording memories


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To eat

What utensils each use


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Size and population

The two on the right explain size and population


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The exhibition


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