1. Comparison between America and China Sam Qu 2/28/2012 1

2. Government In America: the federal government: carries out the roles assignment to the federation of individual state.  In China: the federal government: city government takes a rule for each city. 2

3. Family Structure  In America: Small family: parents and the children  In China: Small family: parents and a child. ( We can have only child in each family.) Some families live with their grandparents too. 3

4. Meal times &Etiquette  In America: Prefer the convenience of eating in front of the TV. Fast food, very popular  In China: Many people stay home eat food with TV. 4

5. Shops  In America: Big Box Stores: Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s-What the customers need available in one place.  In China: you can buy many items in one big supermarket. 5

6. School Requirements  In America: 13 years including Kindergarten In China:9 years including first grade 6

7. Money  In America : Dollar bill, coins(quarter, dime, nickel, penny)  In China: RMB bill, coin( one dime, five dime, one RMB)  One dollar = 6.6RMB 7

8. Language  In America: English.  In China: Chinese. 8

9. Sports  In America: have five major sports: Baseball, American Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Car Racing.  In China: have five major sports: Table Tennis, Running, Tennis, Soccer, Basketball. 9

10. Cooking  In America: All variety and excitement from all over the countries.  In China: There are five series of food. Chinese people eat various food. 10

11. Self  In America: Individualism  In China: Individualism  In the past, we lived and died together as a group 11

12. Face/Reputation  In America: Come and go overnight and in the end usually does not matter. The end results is more of the focus. A person is more likely to overlook a reputation to get the job done.  In China: Leaders and most people think reputation is very important. 12

13. Recognition of the Dead  In America: Most Americans are immigrants who either have lost the information on grave locations or the locations are in foreign countries.  In China: We don’t remember the day of the our ancestors died. No one would want to immigrate to China, I think because China already have too many people. 13

14. Sneezing In America: god bless you.  In China: no one talks to you. 14

15. Burping  In America: “Excuse me”  In China: 借光.(excuse me in Chinese.) 15

16. Superstition, bad number  In America: 13.luck number,7  In China:  Bad numbers:13and4.  Lucky number:7 16

17. Major Holidays  In America: major holidays: Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Independence Day.  In China: major holidays: Chinese New Year, Independence Day. 17

18. Lost Tooth  In America: Tooth fairy  In China: Tooth fairy 18

19. Clothes  In America: Not specific traditional clothes  In China: specific traditional clothes.  (zhong shan zhuang) 19

20. Meal Custom  In America: change their menu for each mealtime. Eat a variety of foods each day. In particular, they eat pizza, sandwiches, pasta or noodles, and some meat for dining.  In China: change their menu for each mealtime. They eat rice, soup, vegetable and meat. 20

21. School days  In America: Eight hours a day, and five days a week  In China: nine and half hours each day, five day each week 21

22. Classroom atmosphere  In America: Informal, and they don’t stand up when teacher enters the room.  In China: formal, they must stand up when teachers enter and leave the room. 22

23. Discussion in classroom  In America: Almost all have discussion in school.  In China: Teachers don’t let the students have discussion in school 23

24. Morality lesson  In America: morality, like good thinking or good behavior for people are learned from their parents or school in USA.  In China: morality, parents teach morality lesson in school once in two weeks. 24

25. Relationship between teacher and students  In America: -very friendly attitude-no uniforms unless private-not too rules of formality in public school. For example, the students never stand up when the teachers enter the room.  In China: -very bad relationship- students must wear uniforms every day. 25

26. Extra activities in school  In America: numerous activities like clubs, sport, and students council available.  In China: No gym in school. Students have gym class outside. There aren’t many extra activities in the school. 26

27. vacation  In America: three months of vacation in summer, and almost two weeks in Christmas.  In China: two months of vacation in summer, and one month of vacation in Chinese new year. 27