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1、However, the western culture and eastern culture gifts behavior or have very big difference.If we do not pay attention to these gifts cultural differences, and maybe one day when we and the western friends, we would be in trouble.Living in California town of Chinese childrens king Michael reading gr

2、ade five, he particularly clever, study is also very hard, because this result also is very good. In the school year ended and the result was not announced before, mike parents will give teachers a small gift certificates and a thank you card thanks teacher in a year to mikes help. After a few days,

3、 year-end results announced, mike without a surprisingly high class, the result is far far higher than other students. A few of the students with lower scores of parents in heard that mike parents have to the teacher very angry after gifts, they think mikes result was the parents to the teacher brib

4、es paid it.Because Chinas gift in it is quite common, in order to pay homage to express gratitude, for friendship, want to people, and so on, can choose to give gifts, even civilians and officials, junior and superior, parents and teachers gifts between is normal things. But in the United States to

5、have the public interest relationship between each other between the imagination of gifts to each other is more sensitive. Although mike parents just out of gratitude teacher kindness and give gifts, but the teacher and mike announced results directly related, this time cant really give gifts is the

6、 American potential consciousness, if choose announced results in gifts before, then, yeah, it would involve the suspicion of bribery. So, some parents misunderstanding to doubt the result of the hard to avoid is mike.Another example:An American woman living in Wisconsin volunteered to tutor English

7、 to a Chinese woman who had moved into the same community. “Before each lesson, and on each and every visit,” the American reported, “the Chinese lady brought me a gift a book, some paper sculpture, flowers, or candy. It was embarrassing。”Unknowingly, this American was experiencing a vestige of prot

8、ocol rooted centuries deep in the Chinese culture。In America, lavish, extravagant gifts are definitely out. An appropriate alternate to a gift is to take the deserving person to dinner, or to an entertainment or sporting event. On the contrary, gift giving is an institution and a revered custom in C

9、hina. “gift giving is a necessity, not merely a nicety as in the West。” In China the proper gift is thought to express the givers true friendship, gratitude, and respect far better than words can.Of course, the western culture and eastern culture gifts or have many other behavior very big difference

10、. First is gift ideas for the difference. The Chinese tend to pay attention to the present the essential meaning, namely its practical value, but dont like useless things. For new couples give gifts, the past is often feel, bed sheet, antependium, ZhuSheng for newborns, often sent packing elegant sm

11、all clothes, are very inexpensive. Chinese New Year holiday even directly red envelopes, and the more money on behalf of the more you have the sincerity.While the westerners often pay attention to the gift of value. Exactly speaking, the Chinese to is gifts, and send the westerners is a souvenir. I

12、was invited to western home.purchasing them, can give the hostess send a bouquet of flowers, male master to send in a bottle of wine. Still can take its own characteristics of small handicraft, an or each other like books, or a CD, or a wrote the book myself. I often buy some folk music in China fol

13、k songs or CD send westerners, the price is not expensive, general a CD in 20 yuan or so, but very popular.In addition, in accepting gifts, Chinese and western reactions are completely different. In China, people accept gifts are often not jubilant, and do not open gifts face to face, that this woul

14、d be very rude, but also to make money, greedy impression, or let a person feel to accept gifts too seriously. Often in customer left, or back home quietly open gifts.And in the west, people accept a gift, think of first is to thank. Therefore, in order to show my appreciation, they often can presen

15、t carefully opened the gift, to praise at some kind of, excited when still hug you, and you also share happy. Sometimes in the wedding celebration, master will also send gift show a guest, to increase the effect of the festival.Although China and the west on the gift be so cultural differences, but not that western culture must be superior in Chinese culture, also cannot say that Chinese culture show is a note of hypocrisy, western culture show frank side.Since the world has various culture, the distinction between different culture is