Week 4 Discusion Question 2

[anvithg]

Chapter 4 in our book mainly focuses on History and Inter-cultural communication and this chapter speaks about different histories. You can choose one or more histories and explain how they influence your conversation when you meet a new person from a different culture, or may be your friend. 

[dechaoqi]

As we know, China has 56 ethnicity, and not all of us have same belief. For example, when I talk with people who has different belief, I would try to avoid the belief question, because we have different belief and some political issues between us. for me, I respect what they believe and have no problem with that, but it is still hard to speak up with. even I dont care what they belief and what their belief brings to our nation. I think it is the influence that political histories and national histories for communication. Dechao Qi A2872

[7681zhu]

In china, There are so many histories, If I met someone I never seen before and we have different culture. The first thing I will introduce our country's different things between us.The history that we know and our views of that history are very much influence by our culture. When people of different cultural background encounter one another, the differences among them can become hidden barriers to communication. However, people often overlook such dynamics in intercultural communication.

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Xiao Zhu (Zoey)   

[a3000faye]

        My point of view, each country has a different history will have a different culture and beliefs. For example, in ancient, China and Japan have a lot of communication. As we all know, because of the war between China and Japan. I don’t like Japanese, even though the Japanese is a good person. I don’t think we have common historical values. So, we can’t take more communication.

[juliatian2854]

China and Taiwan became two countries because of the civil war. Chinese people think that Taiwan is a part of China, while Taiwanese do not think that Taiwan belongs to China, because the history between China and Taiwan is very complicated. However, people cannot deny that Chinese people are easier to communicate with Taiwanese rather than the people from any other countries, because they use the similar language and share the origin of culture. But Chinese people and Taiwanese might also have conflicts and argument when they just focus on a serious political topic such as whether Taiwan belongs to China or not.

[a3001gavin]

          My opinion, as we all know , Confucius is Chinese historical figures, and Qu Yuan is  Chinese historical figures, too. But, in South Korea, they told all the world that Confucius and Qu Yuan are Korean. And their primary, middle and high schools’ textbook are these fake histories. So, I can’t stand it. And I can’t take any communication with Korean.

[zihan wang(Handy)]

For chinese people the confucianist is very important, because the confucianist has influenced chinese culture for over 2000 years. For me, there are one sentence influences me ver much, which is "It’s such a delight to have a friend coming from afar." which is also said by Confucius. So for chinese people are always very hospitable. Here is an instance. Last year summer, I came  back chinese. I have a consin who also study in Philadelphia. He also came back china in summer, but he had companies who are his proferssor and professor's son. In china, he and I became their escort and translator. We went to many different places. When we came to some places that needed enter tickets, we always firstly bought the tickets for them. The professor always said " that's not good", and then we told them "that is fine, you are our guests".  We paid room charge, transportation, eating and so on. Anyway everything. Which also caused them very uncomfortable, and we always said "you are our guests, you deserve that. " One night, we lived into a hotel. we paid the down payment. We thought every thing was going to be normal. Few days later,when we were ready to check out, the attendant told us the room charge had been paid. We were all confused, and thought we never paid anything, why did the room chage have been paid. The professor was also pretending very confusion. At same time, another attendant came over here, and she said the foreigner paid the room charge last night. We were all laughing. The truth was, the professor sneaked out the room last night,  and paid the charge. For us, it is so guilty, beacuse that should be paid by us, and it is also so interesting and happy, we got a so funny professor and deep friendship.

[chaonan liu]

There is a conversation that I see in a movie: （A Chinese girl in her foreign friend's house found a Chinese antiques）

Foreigner: In 1860 my great-great grandfather sailed to China on indestructible and won a great victory. This was one of the spoils of war he brought back.

The girl: You must mean the ransacking of Old summer palace. That was during the Second Opium War, remember?

F: That depends on your point of view. The killing of British and French diplomats by the corrupt Qing Dynasty was an excuse to star the war.

G: Is that a legitimate reason for two industrialised nations to invade an agrarian country?

F: In the eyes of those industrialised nations China was a superpower.

G: I am taking it（Chinese antique）back to China.

F: This is my home, you can’t just taking anything you want.

G: Just like over a hundred years ago, your ancestors didn’t ask for permission before taking this.

I think it reflects influence about the history of the communication. 

Chaonan Liu

A2800   

[vincent ge]

Political history: When I talk to my American friends, we will often talk about our families. In China, we have one-child policy and we seldom have brothers or sisters. In the USA, they have a large family. what's more, my friends could find the jobs easily after graduating from the university but we can't. Due to the high limitation of American policy for international students, we need to study hard and work hard.

A2383 Vincent

[zan72h]

During the 2nd world war, many people died when it happened. In China, Japan invaded chinese land and killed many chinese cruelly. It is a big unforgetable event and pain in all chinese people's hearts. So we dont want to hear the Japanese people talking about the war because it will remind us the pain and wake up our revenge. Actually history is just history, its a past. But it still influences our communication...

Annie

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