Nowadays,with the irresistible trend of globalization and more increasing cultural exchanges among different cultures,there are more and more contacts and collisions from different cultural backgrounds.People can deri...Nowadays,with the irresistible trend of globalization and more increasing cultural exchanges among different cultures,there are more and more contacts and collisions from different cultural backgrounds.People can derive a lot from different cultures through communication.But if people cannot understand other cultures'customs,religions,habits,and so on very well,people will be faced with cultural clashes.Guasha Treatmen is Zheng Xiaolong's classical movie,which tells us a judicial conflict owing to red scars on a boy's back.In the movie,because the boy catches a cold,Chinese immigrates performs Guasha treatment to cure the boy while American people believes that the boy is treated badly.For the Chinese family in the movie,Guasha treatment is only a traditional medical therapy,but American people assume that it is an illegal act as they cannot understand Chinese medical culture.Hence,there exists misunderstanding and cultural conflicts because of cultural differences.This paper will be analyzed from the perspective of Greet Hofstede's three value dimensions so as to help people face the contradiction and conflicts in the process of cross-cultural communication and improve the ability of intercultural communication.展开更多
文摘Nowadays,with the irresistible trend of globalization and more increasing cultural exchanges among different cultures,there are more and more contacts and collisions from different cultural backgrounds.People can derive a lot from different cultures through communication.But if people cannot understand other cultures'customs,religions,habits,and so on very well,people will be faced with cultural clashes.Guasha Treatmen is Zheng Xiaolong's classical movie,which tells us a judicial conflict owing to red scars on a boy's back.In the movie,because the boy catches a cold,Chinese immigrates performs Guasha treatment to cure the boy while American people believes that the boy is treated badly.For the Chinese family in the movie,Guasha treatment is only a traditional medical therapy,but American people assume that it is an illegal act as they cannot understand Chinese medical culture.Hence,there exists misunderstanding and cultural conflicts because of cultural differences.This paper will be analyzed from the perspective of Greet Hofstede's three value dimensions so as to help people face the contradiction and conflicts in the process of cross-cultural communication and improve the ability of intercultural communication.
