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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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Thank you!