Project General Topic: Culture Restricted: Western and Chinese More Restricted: Traditional festival Topic Chosen: I am more interested in the culture of traditional festival and know a little about the difference about the festival of Western and Chinese, and I find it has pretty charm. On the other hand, I want to make use of this opportunity to know more about the western culture and history to expand my view. Outline I. Introduction II. Differences between Chinese and Western Traditional
Throughout the world there are many different cultures. With-in these cultures are their beliefs and ideas on how things were made and created. All cultures have one thing in common and that is the fact that they all have their own creation story. The creation stories are one of the best resources to compare different cultures. The Chinese and West African creation stories have many similarities and differences in their setting, their creator, and their cultural values. To begin, the setting of
the story. When a story is first person point of view, it uses I very frequently. Another similarity is that both parents know two languages, in Mother Tongue the parent can speak Chinese as well as English, and in Names/Nombres the parent can speak Spanish and English. Also, one of the similarities include that both families have foreign American cultures. In Mother Tongue it said “my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down” and what I imagined
The article reviews the similarities and differences between White and Asian/Asian American cultures. Recently there are reports of culture and social support that has been focused on cultural similarities and differences between both groups. Identifying the similarities between cultures are evaluations of provisional research goals, messages, behaviors, ratings of support provision beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and seeking/receiving support. These intentions will give us a better understanding
“stumbling blocks.” First of all, there is the assumption of similarities from the beginning of the video, which is the first and the longest stumbling block mentioned in the article. The assumption of similarities happens because we are all human with needs of food and shelter makes us into thinking we are all the same. In the first part of the video, every family member slurps Japanese somen with chopsticks.
Ancient Egypt and China were both civilizations that had little interaction with each other, as a result, they had little similarities in culture. Little similarities does not mean no similarities though. Even though Egypt and China believed in different religions, and had different ways of honoring the deceased in the period before 600 B.C.E, they both had general morals. To begin with, Egypt’s and China’s religious beliefs were in no way similar. Egypt had a more polytheistic religions believing
At first glance, Christian doctrine and Chinese Confucianism have no similarities that are worth mentioning. However, in the sixteenth century Jesuit missionaries attempted to convert the Chinese people by finding similarities between Confucianism and Christianity. These similarities applied to traditional forms of Confucianism, as opposed to Neo-Confucianism. The most prominent Jesuit missionary of this time was Matteo Ricci. Ricci was the first European to be granted access to the Forbidden City
three differences or similarities between Canada and China Title: Comparison analysis on two countries: China and Canada 1. Introduction In Canada, Asians immigrants account for the majority of the total number of immigrants; for example, in Toronto area, there are more than 400,000 immigrants are Chinese. (Slides from Toronto Lecture, page 4). Canada gradually becomes an immigrant country and absorbs varied cultures from different parts of the world. Especially for Chinese immigrants, when they
families, and family cultures. Although Amelia Streiffer and Melissa Wong’s families both migrated to America, Amelia’s great-great grandparents emigrated from Romania and Switzerland around the 1890s while Melissa’s great-grandfather emigrated from China around the 1930s which resulted in a difference of languages spoken, food eaten, and holidays celebrated between the two girls’ families. Few similarities are shared between Amelia and Melissa’s families but one similarity is that their family
There are many different dance cultures that are practiced in the world today. Each one is different in how they express their people and way of living. Agbekor and the Dragon Dance are two styles of dancing that are completely opposite, but they also carry on some similarities as well. Both dances show a person the characteristics and meaning of cultural dance. Agbekor is an ancient dance style that originated in Ghana, Africa. Agbekor, was originally known as “Atamga” which meant “great oath”