3.1 Territory Differences
Geographical environment is formed between the two countries, China and America culture, a very important influence factors in the process of geographical environment characteristics of the two countries, in a great extent affected the history culture and the development road of the differences between the two countries, China is a typical agricultural civilization, presents the obvious characteristics of continental civilization, while the United States is the industrial and commercial civilization is given priority to, shows the characteristics of ocean civilization. The official language of China is Chinese, and the official language of the United States is English. There are obvious differences between Chinese and Americans in terms of address, greeting and expression. For example, Americans may ask for Thank you or Please when asking for a favor, even for a small favor such as borrowing a pencil and having someone answer the phone. In the eyes of the Chinese, this may be troublesome, even impatience. But Americans consider it rude and disrespectful not to say such kind words. Therefore, when we go to the United States to conduct business negotiations, we should first understand the American greetings expression skills, in order to better communicate and exchange with Americans.
3.2 Economy Differences
Economic differences are one of the reasons for the cultural conflicts between China and the United States. The United States is a developed country while China is a developing country. In terms of ownership structure, China economy is dominated by public ownership, and various forms of ownership develop together. Under socialist conditions, the economy of public ownership includes not only the state-owned economy and the collective economy, but also the state-owned and collective components of the mixed ownership economy. Besides, the forms of public ownership can be diversified, and all the operation modes reflecting the law of socialized mass production can be boldly utilized. The American economic system has the characteristics of both capitalism and mixed economy. In this system, business and the private sector make the main micro economic decisions, with the government playing a minor role in the country is economic life. In the afternoon, the differences between the two economies could lead to conflicts during the negotiations.
3.3 Political Culture differences
China and the United States are both big cultural country,with developed politics and culture. There are three main sources of Chinese political culture: traditional culture, western mainstream political culture and Marxism. China has a civilization of five thousand years. After entering modern times, Chinese traditional culture was impacted and challenged by western culture. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Marxism became the official political ideology of China and gradually became an important part of political culture. The political culture of the United States originated from Europe, especially the United Kingdom, it grew up in the unique geographical conditions, historical process and social environment of the United States. Puritan tradition, European liberalism and British conservatism are the main sources of American political culture. The basic elements of American political culture are individualism, liberalism, pragmatism and nationalism. The four major elements of American political culture infiltrate each other, complement each other, interact with each other and influence each other, to form an organic whole. In China, individualism and liberalism are not feasible, which leads to conflicts in the process of business negotiations between China and the United States.
3.4 Religion Differences
The United States is a multi-religious country, there is no doubt that Christianity occupies the absolute superiority, the majority of people believe in Christianity. For example, remains one of the best-selling books in the United States, selling about 9 million copies a year. Therefore, Christianity is actually the salvation of the United States, and the Christian culture is also the mainstream culture of the United States. Western Christian culture believes that the theory of one - all Christianity is based on God, and its core is the exposition of the nature of God. God is the creator of the universe, he created the nature, time, space, he exists in nature rather than outside nature, for nature legislation, formulation development and the change law of nature, he not only created the human soul and body, but also created the history of mankind, to enter the human history to determine the purpose of human history. Because God is omnipresent, and cares for human beings and makes atonement for human beings, people should obey God. In such a relationship between God and man, guilt and repentance become the eternal themes of the Bible. Man's greatest happiness is to repair his father-son relationship with God. The Chinese mainly believe in Buddhism and Taoism, but Buddhism has the largest number of believers. Chinese religions focus on human beings and advocate the unity of God and man. In the process of Buddhism being introduced into China, great changes have taken place. Compared with Indian Buddhism, the Buddha to save China think the Buddha nature is human nature, everyone has innate wisdom bodhi, thus can nature of enlightenment and Buddha, sentient beings there is no Buddha, because is puzzled by the world, once the Epiphany, true wisdom, inside and outside the understanding, see ponder, since ancient times, Buddhism is the put down the butcher's knife, site become Buddha.
ps:之前的小说在别的地方签约了，这边就不发啦(^～^)
