中西方友谊差别详解.pptx

Different Lands, Different Friendship Guo Jiadong Stand on their own feet Mutual noninterference Don’t impose Relationship easily Equality Respect privacy Chinese Western Different range On the one hand, the definition of friendship is different. Chinese regard good friends as brother, and they even swear to in the same day. The rage of western’s friends is wider, Friendship can be superficial, temperate. It can also be strong and perpetual. Different range On the other hand, the topic range is not the same. Nevertheless, friends only confined in one areas in western. It won’t extend to other areas. In China friends run through all aspects, they talk every thing under the sun. Different time In Western, if the people do not see each other regularly, the relation-ship is likely to die. Studies show that one out of five American families moves every year. American friendships develop quickly, and they may change just as quickly. Different time For Chinese a true friendship endures throughout life changes. Chinese are friends even if they haven’t spoken for 20 years. One very well known saying in China is ‘It is sufficient in life to have a true friend’. Different responsibility Most Americans expect their friends to be more independent and solve their own problems. On the contrary, Chinese friendship needs more obligations. A Chinese may use personal connections to help the friend to get something hard to obtain. A Chinese often provides money to his friend to help him out of difficulties, however these rarely happened among the westerners. Different responsibility Western friendship is mostly a matter of providing emotional support and spending time together. Chinese friends tend to give each other much more concrete help and assistances. A Chinese friends is more likely to give specific advice to a friend. However, an American friend will be very cautious about giving direct advice. Instead he may raise questions to encourage his friend to consider carefully bef