The Course Paper for Sino-American Culture Contrast 姓名：沈萌 学号：20122824 专业班级:机自实验3班 班号: 651

The development of Chinese Identity: a Perspective of

Sino-American Cultural Comparison

1. background

Since McLuhan characterized today’s world as a "global village", people have noticed the frequent communication between cultures, western culture rushes into china while Chinese culture strikes the world too. In the process, Chinese and western culture boomed in this culture collision, and arose the attention of the world. We have to admit that Chinese nation is a group of people of good learning skills, we are good at absorbing cream of other people or nations’ culture which can make us better improved and grown. During these years, plenty of things in American style rushed into our land, American culture influenced us in every moment. So inevitably, Chinese identity changed and improved in this trend.

Since Chinese identity has changed a lot, we will find the detailed changed identity below.

2. My opinion

Firstly, we have to list “personal self concept” in the first stage. We all know that china is a typical Collectivism nation, but now we are becoming more and more individualist. Secondly, we used to be more nostalgic and less concerned about the future, however, we are getting more and more concerned about the current moment and the future rather than the past time in the perspective of “time concept”. Lastly, our self status in society depended on age or family, but now it is changing to be more relied on self-achievement including education and success in career in the perspective of “status”.

3. Arguments

3.1 personal self concept

In the perspective of “personal self concept”– Chinese looks more at the group collective than at individualism. America has become known for its push of