A Comparison between American Individualism and Chinese Collectivism-From the View of Cherishing Life in War

There is a large discrepancy in the value concept of life.We know that the ways of cherishing life are different in war to the soldiers from different cultures.We may perceive that people's concept has been much influenced by the different cultural background and social environment.And similar cultural background and social environment may make people's value trend introject.

On Chinese Collectivism and American Individualism in Food Culture

The thesis analysis Chinese collectivism and American individualism mainly from food culture.The thesis has four parts.The first part expounds the two different values' concept.The second part analysis the two different values in detail from the way of cooking,diet style,dietary ideas and different types of payment through comparison.Chinese pay attention to seasoning,while America natural taste in the way of preparing;Chinese diet style is group dining system,while American diet style is individual dining system;Chinese dietary idea is emotional,while American dietary idea is rational;Chinese like my treat,American like go Dutch.The third part expounds the reasons of different values reflected in the two food culture.And it analysis the main reason from four part above mentioned in detail.The fourth part expounds that the paper aims at letting us learn about two countries' deep-structure culture hidden in food culture.And then we can keep the communication open.

Different Cultural Values between China and America:Collectivism and Individualism in Business Negotiation

Along with the advancement of globalization and China's further integration into the global market, business negotiations between Chinese and American enterprises have been increasing rapidly. In order to successfully communicate with each other and promote the progress of business negotiation, this paper analyzes differences between America's individualism and China's collectivism in Business Negotiation, and uses the case of Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC unit as an example. The last part provides Chinese negotiators with some recommendations to achieve successful negotiations.

Individualism and Collectivism

The world could be analyzed in many dimensions,like rich and poor,peace and warfare,equal and oppressive,but one of the most important dimensions may be the difference between different societies of individualist and collectivist.This article is trying to discuss is the difference between individualism and collectivism in the western and eastern cultures,and also will explain and discuss it in some aspects,such as their viewpoint,their attitude on self-enhancement and self-criticism,and the goal setting and motivation,and take some cases which some researches and psychologists did and some cases found for example to describe it.Also it presents that social orientation and environment,and culture background will take important role to impact people’s mind and choice on individualism and collectivism.No matter individual or collective,it all have advantage and disadvantage for each,it needs comprehensive evaluation for differential environment which can obtain relative reasonable conclusion.

Kinship's Collectivism and Individualism on Chinese and English Culture Context

全球一体化的发展,汉语学习者不仅要了解社交亲属称呼语,而且还要明白亲属称呼语中的价值观和规则,理解东西文化背景不同,亲属称呼也有区别.

A Comparison of Different Values of Freedom Reflected in the Characters of Sun Wukong and Dean

Both the characters of Sun Wukong in The Journey to the West,which is a traditional Chinese fiction,and Dean in On the Road,which is a typical American Beat Generation novel,have been pursuing a carefree lifestyle based on their living environments respectively,but their values of freedom bear quite different meanings:Sun Wukong tries his best to struggle for a happy life for all his family and his friends as well as for himself with little consideration of the risk of his own life,while Dean is always on his way at random for his own personal happiness with little consideration for anybody else.Therefore,Sun Wukong’s behavior represents a kind of collectivism within his individualism,while Dean’s act reflects his American free life style of individualism to a certain extent.

Peer Review in Collective Context of China

Peer review, which incorporates the U.S. ideology of individualism, is regarded as an effective tool in writing classes for improving students' writing proficiency and fostering their critical writing/revising skills (Ramanathan& Atkinson, 1999). Collectivism seems to be an impediment in peer reviewing according to Ramanathan&Atkinson (1999); however, it may not be the case due to the different contexts or cultural beliefs that students carry with.

Case Analysis of Intercultural Communication

With the development of the modern society,China has become more and more interrelate with the whole world.And people living in this global village are required to possess intercultural awareness in order to get well along with people of different cultures.This passage is mainly combined with two actual cases about intercultural communication which may provide some implica?tions for a majority of people.

On the Differences between Oriental and Western's Privacy

Nowadays, with the development of cultural globalization, people cares more about privacy.Firstly, this thesis cares about the differences. Besides, it analyzes the formation of their concepts of privacy. There are a lot of differences between the oriental countries and the western countries. As far as I am concerned, the emphasis and law level of privacy are the main differences.In the end, cultural factors behind privacy differences are discussed, including Individualism in Western Culture and Collectivism Idea in Oriental Traditional Culture.

Online Conversations: A Semantic Network Analysis of Cultural Differences in Conversations on McDonald’s Corporate Facebook Sites between Taiwan and the USA

The goal of this article is to explore the manifestation of culture in language usage posted by McDonald’s Facebook site operators and the accompanying replies posted by fans on the sites in Taiwan and the USA, utilizing the collectivism-individualism dimension suggested by Hofstede’s model of culture. Data were gathered from the whole year of 2012 on the official McDonald’s Facebook sites in the two countries. A semantic network analysis tool, Wolfpak, was used to analyze the words generated from the postings written by Facebook site operators and fans. In general, the study found support for cultural differences through word usage from official McDonald’s Facebook site operators and fans between Taiwan and the USA. It appeared that Taiwan Residents Facebook culture is characterized with the creation of a “we-identity”, with dependence more on people in authority, and a focus on money and materialism;whereas American Facebook culture is characterized with an “I-identity”, with less dependence on people in authority, and more focus on self-interests.

Educational Collectivization:A New Exploration of Modern School System

The construction of modern school system has a rich connotation,its essence is system innovation,and the core is the construction of school internal management system.It is also a dynamic improvement process.Shanghai is one of the leading cities to run schools in collectivization in China.Through innovative collectivization of school running content,it has increasingly become an innovation mechanism of regional education governance,which not only complies with the construction of modern school system but also plays an important role in promoting modern school governance in reform and practice.This research believes that educational collectivization is a new exploration of modern school system construction and provides a reference for future research.

Research on the Leadership of School Managers under Collectivization

In order to realize the high-quality and balanced development of the obligation education,school of collectivization has become an important measure.It promotes the fairness of education by expanding the coverage of high-quality education resources and sharing experience of education management.Its essence is the process of combining multiple individual schools in the region to form an organic organization of education group.In this process,school managers are faced with many problems such as remote management,increased difficulty in management,and increased cost of management.How to improve their leadership under collectivization has become a key issue of research.This study takes Jing'an District of Shanghai as an example,pays attention to the leadership of school managers under collectivization,in order to provide targeted suggestions for improving the leadership of school managers.This study analyzes the concept of school management leadership,and investigates the performance of three education groups and eight school managers in the aspects of structural leadership,teaching leadership,curriculum leadership and cultural value leadership.The study finds that school managers think that the main challenge after collectivization is the increase of management difficulty,followed by the expansion of school scale,insufficient policy support and insufficient resource allocation.In a word,these problems greatly affect the leadership level of school managers under collectivization.It thinks that school managers should optimize the organizational structure,build a modern school system,improve the professional level,promote the common development of teachers,build school culture and create a good organizational atmosphere to continuously improve their leadership.

Understanding cultures beyond medicine

A patient with a terminal illness died of a horrible suicidal attempt and the case provoked deeper learning of how a certain cultural background can lead people to different behaviors.This case study is intended to stimulate more cultural competency-related discussions.