Cross-cultural Differences between China and Japan
Culture is defined as the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next (Henslin, page 36). People in different countries have different ways to interpret things. The paper’s focus is to understand the cross-cultural differences between the practices and value structures in the Chinese and Japan cultures. The most outstanding difference in the two cultures is their level of openness. Japanese people are more reserved having come from an island country. Chinese people, on the other hand, tend to be more open as they come from a large country where the citizens are not too homogeneous and hence …show more content…
The religion aspect of the culture is mainly atheist. The culture recognizes only five religions i.e. Buddhism, Taoism, Catholic, Islam and Protestant with any other religion being considered as illegal despite the Chinese constitution that allow for religion freedom. The country is characterized by seven major groups of dialects of the Chinese language whereby each has its variations. Chinese is rather more like a language family than a single language made up of some regional forms (Norman, 1988). The official language of the Chinese people is Putonghua, a form of Mandarin spoken in the capital of Beijing following the orders from the president of the Republic of …show more content…
A person is at liberty to choose what is good for him/her. An individual is held accountable for his /her educational failures and parents, and the school has a very minimal role to play. Therefore, China and Japan should let the individual feel accountable for their failures and not blaming the entire society. The individual should be given some freedom of choice and exercise of self- interests which is more satisfactory other than working for the group. One is not given the chance to enjoy success attained on an individual level that is a bit unfair to the person who is working for
Culture is defined as the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next (Henslin, page 36). People in different countries have different ways to interpret things. The paper’s focus is to understand the cross-cultural differences between the practices and value structures in the Chinese and Japan cultures. The most outstanding difference in the two cultures is their level of openness. Japanese people are more reserved having come from an island country. Chinese people, on the other hand, tend to be more open as they come from a large country where the citizens are not too homogeneous and hence …show more content…
The religion aspect of the culture is mainly atheist. The culture recognizes only five religions i.e. Buddhism, Taoism, Catholic, Islam and Protestant with any other religion being considered as illegal despite the Chinese constitution that allow for religion freedom. The country is characterized by seven major groups of dialects of the Chinese language whereby each has its variations. Chinese is rather more like a language family than a single language made up of some regional forms (Norman, 1988). The official language of the Chinese people is Putonghua, a form of Mandarin spoken in the capital of Beijing following the orders from the president of the Republic of …show more content…
A person is at liberty to choose what is good for him/her. An individual is held accountable for his /her educational failures and parents, and the school has a very minimal role to play. Therefore, China and Japan should let the individual feel accountable for their failures and not blaming the entire society. The individual should be given some freedom of choice and exercise of self- interests which is more satisfactory other than working for the group. One is not given the chance to enjoy success attained on an individual level that is a bit unfair to the person who is working for