The film "THE TREATMENT" tells us audience a series of misconceptions of xu's three generations in the United States.The film depicts the difference between Chinese and western medicine, reflecting the friction and collision caused by cultural difference actually. Our speech will analyze the cultural differences between Chinese and western cultures in three aspects: interpersonal communication, family relationship and education.
Frist of all, Chinese family education focus on children's moral education. Chinese children have been taught to be children of filial piety from childhood, which is totally different with Western countries. They pay more attention to personal - based education, justice and freedom of the individuals. Children also have the right to speak with family, and their parent would respect their children. Take the movie as an example, Xu's son, Dennis has conflict with his boss's son, Paul. Actually Xu asked Dennis to apologize to him for no reason at all. When Dennis didn't listen to Xu, Xu immediately shut down his son's game player and hit Dennis in the back of head, by which Xu expected to show his respect to his boss.
The second difference is the family relationship. In Chinese thinking, facing the unreasonable demands of children, parents should criticize them with a strict attitude. the relationship between huaband and wife is equal in US. American husbands will speak to wife face to face, In the film, Denis gives scraping to his grandson, who had violated the American law. In order to protect his father, Xu admits to take the responsibility of his father. In Chinese opinion, it is the basic requirement of filial piety. When the boss Quinlan learned the truth, he was very unbelievable. Westerners have more consciousness of self independence than Chinese. They believe that the individual is equal before the law.
The third difference is the way of dealing with the interpersonal communication. American culture pays attention to individualism, while Chinese culture put collective interest first . In scrapping, when Jane gave birth to Denis at the hospital, Datong did not accompany her at the hospital because he had a meeting at the company. This kind of choice is understandable in China, where collectivity outweighs individuality, but is unacceptable and unforgivable in American society. And this is not only the conflict between collectivism and individualism, but also the conflict in interpersonal relationship view.
In intercultural communication, empathy, sincere trust and mutual understanding are the best ways to achieve harmony. At the same time, we also notice that with the development of globalization, the cultural integration between China and the West has been strengthened and the differences between each other have been decreasing.
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