People with different personalities have various values and reflections on every single thing. However, culture can be a big element to cultivate their perspectives and values. Therefore, there are some similarities and differences between personal values in America and China. Both American and Chinese regard education as the fundamental demand of their children. Both of them provide compulsory education so no matter what finical condition people live in, they all receive knowledge equally. What is more, American build deeply concepts of family, which is same as Chinese. During the Christmas in America, wherever they are and no matter how busy they are, they will definitely back home and celebrate together, which is same as Chinese, people in China, during Chinese new year, always wait in line for several days in order to get a ticket to go home and enjoy family time.
The image represents how chinese family celebrate traditional new year festival shows."Chinese New Year2016" Image, www.Chinahighlights.com,www.Chinahighlight.com,October 19.2015.Web.11 Nov.2015.
However, there are some of ideas between each country are differ from each other. Firstly, the idea of money is an obvious difference between both countries. In china, most of people regard ' the most expensive' as ' the best one'. While, American believe that suitable is the best. Take car as an example, American take a car as just a transportation tool so when they select a car, they consider about how many people can be hold and fuel consumption problem. Unlike American, Chinese tend to show their social status and wealth by the car they drove.Therefore, more expensive car they drive means more rich they are. Also, they are not sharing the same way, when they raise their children. For chinese parents, they are more protective because of the only child policy.They help children to make bed, take shower and even have meal. Some college student who lives on their own for the first time, do not even know how to eat an egg with shell on it. Yet, American choose backyard raising which let their child figure out by themsleves so that the children will be more independent than others. Comparing values between American and Chinese, it is not easy to tell which is good or bad. However, after seeing through the differences and similarities, we can understand both cultural effects more deeply and comprehensivly.
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