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The Difference between Chinese and Western Culture Chinese vs Western Culture The major difference The major difference between Chinese and Western culture is that China is an oriental country, and its traditional culture is completely different from western heritage. Chinese culture is older than 5000 years, and Chinese people have developed their own music, musical instruments, painting techniques, traditional Chinese medicine, and not to forget, cooking methods etc – completely different and unique when compared to Western culture. Chinese believe in healthy eating, and have a holistic approach towards health. The Western culture is more advanced, and loves adventure and exploration. The Chinese focus more on collective gain instead of individual gain by making the right decisions, and believe in adopting a middle way to avoid extremism. Western: 1. Western culture is based on individualism rather than on mass (collectivism). For instance, in the US, you always talk about individual rights, instead of placing the whole society above your own self. This is clearly different in China where a country, society or family are placed above your own self.  Chinese: 1. A culture based on masses (collectivism). People placed country and family above your own self.  Western: 2. Western culture is adventurous and exploration based. Westerners like to discover new things, invention and expand outwards. For instance, bungee jumping is considered adventurous and common in western culture, but you will probably find no-one doing such a thing in China. 　　  Chinese: 2. A culture that is based on humanism and people  Western : 3. Western culture is based on science, which attempts to resolve people and natures relationship. 　　  Chinese: 3. To resolve the relationship betwen man and nature, the chinese attempts to fuse the human and heaven as one. (天人和一) 　　  Western: 4. West uses law to resolve people and peoples relationship. You can never find law well-established in