从《刮痧》看中美文化的差异.doc

北京理工大学珠海学院2020届本科生毕业论文Differences between Chinese and American Culture in GuashaDifferences between Chinese and American Culture in GuashaAbstractWith the increasing cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and America, there are more and more cultural differences. If Chinese and American cultures can be understood accurately, it will better achieve the expected results of their exchanges and cooperation. However, some people are not clear about the cultural differences between China and America. Besides, some Chinese cultures are hard to comprehend by Americans which causes conflicts easily. A film The Guasha Treatment is a good case of cultural differences between China and America. It takes Guasha as the clue to vividly portray different filial piety, family education, view of friends and so on in China and America.In order to know and distinguish the cultural differences between China and America clearly, this paper attempts to compare filial piety and family education between China and America by using the method of documentation based on The Guasha Treatment. Moreover, this paper attempts to analyze the factors that cause differences. Therefore, it may deepen peoples understanding of filial piety and family education in China and America. This paper will also make cross-cultural communication between China and America smoother. In addition, it will find that under the background of cultural globalization, different cultures should be inherited rationally, integrated and supplemented mutually so as to promote the development of cultural diversity.Keywords: cross-cultural communication, cultural differences, filial piety, family education从《刮痧》看中美文化的差异摘 要随着中美两国的文化交流与合作日益增多，所体现的文化差异也越来越多，准确认识双方的文化将更好地达到合作与交流的预期效果。

然而，有些人对中美的文化差异不清楚，美国人对一些中国文化并不理解，从而容易引起误会电影《刮痧》正是中美文化差异很好的体现，这部电影以传统中医治疗法“刮痧”为线索，生动地描述了中美不同的孝文化、家庭教育、朋友观等等为了更清楚地了解和区分中美的文化差异，这篇论文将以《刮痧》为根据，使用资料文献法比较中美的孝文化和家庭教育，并分析造成差异的因素因此，本文将加深人们对中美孝文化和家庭教育的理解，使两国的跨文化交流更加顺畅，同时还发现在文化全球化的背景下，应理性继承不同的文化，并相互融合和补充，从而促进文化多样性的发展关键词：跨文化交际；文化差异；孝文化；家庭教育IIContentsAbstract Ⅰ摘要 ⅡIntroduction 11 Differences in Filial Piety between China and America 31.1 The Duties of Filial Piety. 31.2 The Family Status 41.3 The Ways to Treat the Old People 42 Reasons for the Differences of Filial Piety 62.1 Family Values 62.2 Relation between Generations 72.3 The Orientation of Moral Principles 72.4 Pension Mechanism 83 Differences in Family Education between China and America 10 3.1 Family Education Ways 10 3.2 Direction of Child Evaluation 113.3 The Objectives of Family Education 11 3.4 Results of Family Education between China and America 124 Reasons for the Differences of Family Education 144.1 Value Orientation 144.2 Traditional Education 144.3 Expectation on Children 154.4 National Conditions 16Conclusion 18References 20Acknowledgments 21IntroductionThe Guasha Treatment is a Chinese film concerning cultural conflicts experienced by a Chinese immigrant family living in the USA which is released in 2001. Xu Datong, a Chinese immigrant, is a father of a five-year-old son Dennis. He has a successful career and a happy family after struggling for eight years in the United States. Datong tells everyone excitedly at the companys annual party that he loves US and his American dream comes true. Nevertheless, this good news is broken by an incident. Datongs father goes to America from China to visit his son’s family. While there, Datongs father is unable to read English labels of medicine. So he gives his grandson a treatment of Guasha to cure a slight fever. The purple marks left by the treatment on Dennis back are considered to be evidence of abusing child by American social workers. Thus, Datongs family is submitted to the court. In order to protect his father from trouble and lawsuit, Datong cheats to the judge and admits that he does it. Later, Datongs father goes back to China. Finally, Xu Datong and his wife are able to reunite with his son.Now, as exchanges and cooperation in culture and economy between China and America are increasing, cultural differences that are manifested are also increasing. This film is a very good reflection of differences between Chinese and American culture, such as the Guasha treatment, filial piety, family education, legal concept and so on. This paper is divided into four main parts and chooses two aspects to study which are filial piety and family education. Filial piety is a virtue that shows respect for parents, the elders, and ancestors. It has been very important in China since ancient times and its considered a key virtue in Chinese culture. In the Classic of Filial Piety, Confucius (551-479 BCE) says that "filial piety is the root of virtue and the basis of philosophy" (Wikipedia.org). Modern philosopher Fung Yu-lan once described 。