Tradition Versus Technology: Comparing and Contrasting the United States and China A young girl in the People’s Republic of China drops out of school so that she can care for her aging parents. She will stay with them and carry out many of the household chores while her brother is away getting an education. She wanted nothing more than to stay in school and perhaps go on to college‚ but this is a dream she may as well forget. Besides‚ if her parents can only afford to educate one of their
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In different culture‚ there will be many different customs and traditions in festival celebrations. Wedding customs are one of the most representative and symbolic customs in revealing the differences. The wedding customs between China and America can reveal the differences in thinking model‚ value of orientation‚ and code of conduct as well as religion beliefs of the two countries. Chinese wedding style A Chinese wedding is an extremely special occasion fulls of bright red color everywhere--tablecloths
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The classical civilizations of China and India are similar in social inequality due to the treatment of women and every individual being given a role in society. They differ in the flexibility in the social hierarchy and the presence or absence of coerced labor. China is similar to India in their treatment of women. India and China both treated women as subordinate to men. In China‚ the 5 relationships in Confucianism beliefs placed women on the lower end of the relationship. In India‚ women were
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3. What cultural difference(s) hindered relations between Japan and the United States? 4. Why was Hawaii (http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/hawaii.html) important in US expansionism?
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The difference between Taiwan and China Taiwan‚ not much people know this country‚ most people think that Taiwan is the same as Hong Kong or Macau‚ a part of China‚ but actually Taiwan is the independent country in East Asia. The official name of Taiwan is “Republic of China” different from China is “People Republic of China”. About 65 years ago‚ there were a civil war inside mainland China between two biggest political parties. Both parties named “Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)” and ”Communist
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rift in the ways that China and Russia established their agricultural systems after their revolutions occurred. Collectivization was the way to go in Russia. A majority of Russia’s farmland was in collectives. For the families that lived on these collectives‚ they had to split all money made equally‚ after most of the income was taken through taxes. This gave the people no incentive to work hard because everyone made the same amount no matter what who worked hardest. However‚ China had communes instead
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conversion has a limit. Some cross-cultural differences will not disappear so easily and managers will have to understand and appreciate these cultural oddities’ if they wish to run a successful business. Let us take China and France as examples of two very different countries that may have cross-cultural problems while doing business. First we will give a general overview of the two countries and then discuss some management practices that may vary between these eastern and western cultures
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Though the Inca and Mayan empires existed at different times in history‚ they have a few things in common. Like other societies throughout history though‚ they have many things that set them apart from each other. The biggest similarity they share is that they both had control of massive empires that eventually ceased to exist. To start off with‚ the Mayans existed earlier in history than the Incas. The Mayans existed from 1000 BC to AD 1697 and no one is quite certain what wiped out their ancient
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The Cold War was led from 1945 to about 1991‚ it was a war fought between the Communists led by the Soviet Union and the Democratic nations led by the United States. Before the Second World War had begun there were economic‚ political and social differences between the two ideologies‚ which were only intensified after the war‚ as a result of suspicions both sides had. To a certain extent it is clear that the Cold War was a more or less natural development of the Second World War. When the war ended
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In 1000 BCE to 600 BCE‚ China and India developed similar and different characteristics. China’s political structure was more rigid‚ reflected by their belief systems‚ while India’s loose governing relied on Hinduism to bring unity. Both China and India shared similar social developments in the deepening of a patriarchal system which belief systems worsened the conditions of women’s rights. China and India’s had different political structure because China’s rigid government rule was justified by
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