Differences between Chinese and American habits and values

Elza 2022-03-08 08:01:19

Gathering with friends: Beauty: Petty bourgeoisie restaurants with decent and caring waiters or bars with niche music: Street stalls, you can share tables with strangers Criteria for choosing a mate: Beauty: Like-minded, chatting: The right match, Get the love process: Beauty: Hook up by doing things together --> Formal date --> boyfriend(s)/girlfriend(s) ---> Engaged ---> Married Middle: Fan friend/traveler/colleague/friend Friends ---> Ambiguous friends ---> If you confess successfully, you will become boyfriend and girlfriend ---> Married Chinese in the United States: meal friends/travelers/colleagues/friends of friends---> Ambiguous friends (this Steps can be ignored) ---> If the confession is successful, you will become a boyfriend and a boyfriend, and you can live together ---> Who will pay for the marriage: Beauty: When the woman insists on paying the bill, the boy cannot scramble to pay; the boy can express a gentlemanly treat, but Women can't be taken for granted: usually boys have to pay, and girls are strongly discouraged from paying. Looking at aliens: America: ABCs with authentic English are not foreigners, but they are still Chinese and should not forget their ancestors. For political correctness, they cannot be treated differently. Zhong: People who look foreigners are foreigners, and those who can speak Chinese are even more funny. Falling in love with someone else: Beauty: cheating is immoral, and the scumbag/scumbag who has cheated must break up. Inappropriate love needs to end in time. Zhong: Being a mistress by yourself is because love is selfish, and being a mistress by others is immoral. The scumbag/scumbag who has cheated must be taken back. For moral reasons, we should not break up easily. Girlfriend's best friend: Beauty: It's okay to help each other to catch the junior high school: It's okay to help each other to catch the junior third: The female protagonist is an Asian American who has returned to Hong Kong, and her identity is even more complicated. She has both the independence of Western women and the conservative and cautious of Eastern women. And the male protagonist is still an out-and-out Yankee, and what he has learned is only the fur of Hong Kong. This is probably one of the places where the film lacks heat. Another: Even if the Americans have lived in Hong Kong for ten years and have mastered the language, they still hang out in the small circle of white people all day long. And this small circle is also the last blind spot in my cognition of this city. This blind spot was finally filled by this film on my flight back home from Los Angeles. After living in the United States for so many years, I actually understand the ideas of the male and female protagonists. I have finally become someone who is not used to sharing tables with people.

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  • Ruby: I've always been intrigued with expats.

    Josh: Yeah?

    Ruby: Yeah. I mean, they always gave the impression that living abroad is so glamorous. But when my grandparents immigrated to the States from Hong Kong, their journey is anything but glamorous.

    Josh: You see that?

    Ruby: Yeah?

    Josh: That's my office right there.

    Ruby: It almost makes it worth being a banker.

    Josh: All those lights on in the offices. It's 11:00 in a Friday night. Those are all people working. It isn't as glamorous as it looks.

    Ruby: Guess not.

  • Josh: There's something very wrong with your city when the only good thing you have going for it is the weather.