Cultural Differences between East and West 东西方文化差异 英语作文

2020年11月26日发(作者：李思捷)
Cultural Differences between the East and West
As we all know, the culture in the east and that in the west are very different.

In value judgment, easterners hold the value of collectivism while westerners hold the
values of individualism. As the way of thinking, western people think more directly,
but the eastern people more obliquely. So while solve a problem, westerners would
solve it in a quite direct way while easterners would more likely to detour. Meanwhile,
easterners would show their emotions and opinion in a more tactful way than
westerners who show then out directly. And for mode of life, westerners prefer live by
their own while easterners prefer live in groups. When talking about interpersonal
relationship, westerners have much more simply interpersonal relationship than
easterners. There are still many different aspects in the culture between the east and
the west. And among all these, the value of judgment is one of the most obvious and
important differences.

It is known that easterners hold the value of collectivism while westerners the values
of individualism. That is to say, in east, one should put collective interests in the first
place. That is because they believe one would not exist without nationality, society,
family or other collective; so one is firstly a person in collectives, and then he is
himself. Therefore, the view of oneself in the east is tiny. However, in west, one
would usually pay more attention to the realization of personal interests, because in
their mind, the societies are established on individual. So, unlike eastern countries, the