中国和法国的文化差异（用英语说）

中国和法国的文化差异（用英语说）
中国和法国的文化差异（用英语说）

中国和法国的文化差异（用英语说）
Am¨|lie
　　Maschi
　　安美丽
　　The cultural differences between China and France.
　　1) An overview of China & France
　　France and China are really different, concerning politic, geography, economy
　　people way of thinking and the past. Indeed, their pasts are nothing similar, neithe
　　their culture. There are 9063 km from Paris to Beijing, 62,9 millions of people an
　　1,3 billion in China. Chinese government, seeing this population, created law
　　about the number of children for each family, and create different jobs (like peopl
　　in elevators) in order to generate a population voluntary and devoted to the work
　　In China, a beggar is really badly seeing because Chinese have to search a job an
　　be useful for their country. In France, there is a big rate of unemployment an
　　people are enjoying the French social system by doing nothing and keep thei
　　unemployment status. China is a socialist system of market economy since 1949
　　and France is a Republic capitalist and democratic country. France is the firs
　　country who begin a relationship with China, and in spite of its development, there
　　are many cultural differences between them.
　　2) Education, values
　　Zhou Ji, the minister of education said in 2004 that the Chinese education
　　during 20 years was really developed and the instruction level of the population
　　increased, because of the scholarship of 9 years and the improvements of the
　　higher education. After 2000 (creation of the 9 years scholarship law), only 5% of
　　Chinese were illiterates and there were 210 millions of students in middle and high
　　school. Among countries in developing process, China is the best concerning the
　　education improvements. There were in 1998 1,08 million of students admitted in
　　higher schools against 4,2 millions in 2004. Recently, China is the country which
　　contains the most students, that is to say 20 millions. Besides, the quality of the
　　Chinese education did not stop improving. Since 2002, China signed treaties on the
　　mutual recognition of the qualifications of superior education and the university
　　ranks with the various countries, such as England, Germany, France, Australia and
　　New Zealand. In France, people have to learn during 15 years in order to follow
　　studies in universities or schools after their graduation. There is also a weak rate of
　　illiteracy and people are trying to follow hard studies in order to get a good job with good status.
　　In Chinese universities, all the students are eating approximately at the same
　　hour, after they are working until the buildings are closed, then go to their room
　　and there is no electricity anymore at 11pm, they have to sleep. They are living
　　these days years after years, that is representative of an old way of thinking,
　　working hard and succeeding in their work life. Foreign people are very surprised
　　by this way of doing, like in France people do as they want. French have regular
　　homework, but nobody is working every day a so long time, and they decided to go
　　to bed when they want.
　　Religions are not the same in China and in France, and the religion have an
　　important effect on people and their thoughts. For beginning, the philosophy in
　　China is Confucianism and in France it is more Greco and Latin philosophy which
　　affected the French life. In China, as the population is big, people believe in many
　　different religions, like Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, but
　　people who are praying it is also for pray the ancestors. In France, people believe in
　　Catholicism, Islam, Jewish, Protestantism and Buddhism, but they have not this
　　kind of respect about the old people. Old people are often in rest-home and some
　　families are forgetting them, but in China old people are really respected and
　　Chinese are venerating ancestors. The religions or philosophic thoughts have
　　influences on people. In the old China, women were less considerate than men.
　　They could work, have a politic status (vote and be elected), have propriety, choose
　　their own husband and give her advice about the family life or the world. The
　　children have to obey to his parents and not complain. That were traditional values,
　　in our days this things are changing, the women have a better status and are more
　　important in the social life, but the children have still to do what their parents want,
　　about studies, friends, wife, etc. Chinese people are often following the traditional
　　values and think what their ancestors thought.
　　3) Arts, organization, tradition
　　Nobody could ignore that Chinese arts are rich and interest the world. The
　　Chinese traditional theater, as renowned as the Greek tragedy and the comedy and
　　the theater in India are a part of the old three big theatrical cultures of the world.
　　We count in China more than 300 kinds of traditional theaters, which use the
　　singing and the dance as the average main things to develop the intrigues. The
　　calligraphy, the cinema, the artisan art really refined and the literature are the main
　　point of the Chinese cultural art. The French theater it is at first the text that have
　　to look in public film directors, comedians, decorators and technicians. The French
　　theater is rich in classic texts (ancient, modern or contemporary) among which to
　　every season "people of the theater" propose new, personal performances. There
　　are also many little theater group who are interpreting their own texts, funny,
　　dramatic or scary. There are in France many dancers and musicians of many
　　different king of music. French really love cinema, and France is one of the
　　countries which has the densest network of rooms. There are many festivals
　　organized, like festival of music, opera or again dance.
　　The fests in France are really different than in China. There are many religion
　　fests like Christmas for example which are not celebrated in China. In China, there
　　Chinese but unknown by the world.
　　Instead of the big social protection system in France, Chinese people invest
　　their money in the unemployment insurance, the oldness insurance and the health insurance. China made big improvements concerning the medical services and th
　　sanitary, many hospitals were built in many regions included the country-sid
　　There are still problems concerning the number of doctors, or their competence
　　but there are fewer deaths than before and China continues to keep thi
　　progression. In France, thanks to the social protection, it is easier to accede to
　　verified. They are many rules, many conventions against the carelessness and th
　　access to a treatment in case of diseases and sufferings.
　　Indeed, as the revenue in China is less than in Western countries, it i
　　sometimes difficult to access to western medicines and also products. That is th
　　reason of the counterfeiting in China. It is in our days very difficult to fin
　　products with a good looking if it is not counterfeiting. Moreover, it is a rea
　　problem for foreigners at the customs because this is totally not tolerated i
　　France. Generally, Chinese people are often
　　spend it in anything. They are always eating for the less they can (except ric
　　special occasions. The prices in China are not really enormous, for foreigner the lif
　　there is easier than in their own country. The life is easier, but the revenue i
　　adapted to the prices so there is still a stability. Despite prices and traditional culture, Chinese are really taking part of the
　　fashion world. They wear many wild-looking clothes (like clothes with Mickey
　　Mouse), short skirts, but never plunging necklines. Chinese girls, according to the
　　fashion, want a white skin, there are many creams for this and Chinese girls have
　　always an umbrella in order to be protected of the sun. In France this is the
　　opposite, French girls put creams for being suntanned, always put their all body on
　　the sun and wear classic and common clothes.
　　Towns in China are arranged as a checkerboard, and in France as a star. There
　　is also a way of thinking based on Taoism movement, for example people put their
　　furniture in their apartment in a special way based on the cult of the ying and the
　　yang, and it is the same things for the place of doors and windows. Towns in China are arranged as a checkerboard, and in France as a star. There
　　is also a way of thinking based on Taoism movement, for example people put their
　　furniture in their apartment in a special way based on the cult of the ying and the
　　yang, and it is the same things for the place of doors and windows.
　　the same way of transport. Chinese are often in bicycles, bus or use a taxi and
　　French use subway, trains and cars. The subways and trains are in development in
　　china, but this is still not enough big for the satisfaction of Chinese. Chinese people
　　streets are also very different than French streets. The way of driving is sometimes
　　suicidal in china, there are not the same rules about the driving like in France, we
　　can think that there is less security but people in china pay more attention because
　　of this way of driving. You can see in the streets horses with products like fruits or
　　vegetables, there are also little artisans like cobblers and many food stands. There is
　　anothe
　　employment and people are reassured.
　　The hours for eating and the food are not really similar in France and in China.
　　Chinese people are eating very early, French very late. For example you can eat in France pastas and beef cooked with red wine, and in China jiaozi, baozi with
　　Cantonese rice. The Chinese preferences are different than western people, so
　　foreign companies have to adapt their product to the Chinese habits in order to be
　　successfully implanted.
　　In China there is a big censure of erotic scene on television, and for Chinese it is
　　also really bad seeing to have sexual relations before the wedding. However in the
　　DVD stores, pornographic movies are far from being hidden at the bottom of the
　　shop, but rather indifferently exposed close to films for children. In France you can ook on it.
　　There is a recent law which is saying that pornographic movies on television
　　and there is also a parental code in order to protect the children. There is not only
　　in China an erotic censure, the personal freedoms are reduced. Whereas China
　　opens more and more economically, the censure does not cease being reinforced,
　　in all the forms of media, including Internet, and journalists are fired, passed to
　　tobacco or carried out if they exceed the governmental censure.
　　4) France interested by China, China interested b
　　the western side
　　Chinese people are very open about the foreign people; they are really intereste
　　by them and want to discover all the foreign things. They are friendly with them
　　they are not hidden themselves and say what they are thinking. French people arand however it is more and mor
　　usual that French are going to another country for studying or working and the
　　are interested by foreign cultures. Chinese want to do study in other countries, bu
　　in spite of the government help, it is sometimes difficult because of the difference
　　about the prices. The tourism in China is a little easier for foreigners than th
　　tourism in France for Chinese people. Chinese are really open-minded concernin
　　also in order to have a contact with the world outside of China and introduce thei
　　children to this new behavior. The world sees China as a real good place fo
　　investments and for implantation because of this quick development and this bi
　　capacity. Because of this process of development though globalization, on th
　　future China will become one of the biggest powerful country of our world and thi
　　is not negligible.
　　To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic
　　relations between China and France, crossed Years China-France is organized in
　　both countries: the activities of the Year of China in France which took place
　　between October, 2003 and July, 2004 in the form of parades and of various
　　exhibitions, presented completely the Chinese, ancient, modern and multicolored
　　culture and the development of the construction quibbles. The activities of the Year of France in China, which take place between autumn, 2004 and the summer,
　　2005 have the "romanticism" and the "innovation" as the subjects and present
　　everywhere the traditional and modern cultural aspects of France. Crossed Years
　　China-France is the most important activities of cultural exchanges between China
　　and foreign country since the foundation of new China. It is also a grand business
　　in the history of the Sino-French exchanges.
　　Conclusion
　　The behavior of Chinese differs enormously from that of French, and Westerns
　　in general. Indeed the Chinese appear much more natural and traditional than
　　French, but there are good and bad things in both of them way of life. China is
　　following the globalization process, however this country is still keeping its
　　traditional values but modify some points according to the population and the
　　better thing for the land. France and China are really different but they can keep a
　　good relation between them and can evolve together.