奇速英语

中美文化差异

Today,at the Binhe Park English corner, someone asked me, “What’s the weather like in the USA?”Now I respond, “Much like it is here.” That would be a true statement. Why? Well, look at a globe. America sits closely to the same distance from the equator and from the North Pole as China.

I remember a story about a couple of families that had decided to move to another city. They wanted to find the right city. They weren’t in a hurry to settle down. So, they went several hundred miles from their home city and found a place that looked nice.They approached an elderly man in the city near the town center on a bench on the sidewalk. They asked him, “I’m sure you’ve lived here a long time. What is this city like? What are the people like? Are they good people or bad people?”The old man looked at the ground contemplatively and finally said, “Well,what are the people like in the town you are from?” They say, “Oh the people there were great. We just wanted to have a new experience and not just live in one place for so long.” He said, “Well, you will find that the people here are much like the ones from the city you came.”

There are 315 million Americans. They are all different. There are 1.3 billion Chinese. They are all different. There are definitely some things that are special and particular about Chinese culture and American culture.