Introduction
Since the reform and open, interdependence is one of psychological dimensions of Collectivism. As we know that Chinese Culture emphasizes Collectivism like having lunch together, living together and so on. On the contrary, Individualism is the major culture in Western countries. But as far as I concerned, the European American people are more likely than Chinese-Americans. They are used to evaluate people’s behaviors in a bid to assess the personality. And now I will divide the essay as two parts. Part one will put forth the reason why Chinese culture is including Interdependence instead of Independence. Part two will take a phenomenon that Chinese culture is being affected by Western culture as an example to prove Chinese culture including Interdependence.
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However, Chinese culture is more sensitive and interdependent to society. "Culture can be very important in shaping some fundamental aspects of the human mind," said study researcher Crotts & Erdmann (2000), a psychological professor at the University of Michigan. "This study is one example of a demonstration that culture can influence what appears to be a very deep part the human mind, something that happens automatically and continuously." Advantage is more obvious. There is another research indicates that Chinese are used to pay more attention to their society than Western people. A scholar and his colleagues found that when a line the shown box, and then shown box being empty and asked to draw a line the length at the same as the previous line — no matter the size of the box — most of Americans did outperformed Chinese. However, the Chinese have advantage apparently when they are asked for altering that had to draw a the same proportion line of relative to the box as the line they had seen earlier. This is a study in 2003 from Kitayama
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The geographical area of China is more than 9 million square kilometers and as a result, it is the fourth largest country in the world. There are several ethnic groups in China, the Han Chinese is the largest group, and it is found in almost all parts of the country. Other minority groups include Tibetan, Zhuang, Korean, and Mongol. The Chinese society is high context and non-verbal. The Chinese people acquire the knowledge of what they are supposed to do and say even if they are not told through conversation. Voice and facial expressions play a critical role in determining the feelings in a person. They do not have facial expressions when in a conversation. Direct eye contact is avoided because it is viewed as a symbol of disrespect (Clair & Norris, 2011).
“Acknowledges the fact that in individualistic cultures, ‘people are supposed to look after themselves and their family only’ while in collective cultures, ‘people belong to groups or collectives which are supposed to look after them in exchange for loyalty’”. (Theriault, 2016)
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| The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people´s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “We”. In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to ‘in
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Topic 2: to compare your native culture with Chinese culture and to draw your conclusions;
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