Chinese Culture Vs American Culture

As time has gone, psychologists have looked into cultures and have found that culture has many layers to it including clothing, food, and other meanings. While many people believe that culture is the same as nationality or race, it is actually defined as the information shared by a group of people across multiple generations. This means through time, these cultures have evolved, shared common similarities, and built off of each other. Everyone, from birth, has culture in them already as the way they cry can be separate than a baby from across the world. So, culture has an influence on the way we act, communicate, and think from day one.

Structure-oriented studies are comparisons of relationships among culture and how they interpret a particular

This is evident in the “Cultural Psychology Part 1” video as it chose to compare the differences between the Asian and Western European/American cultures and the dimensions each live by. This video showed that the more Asian culture choose to live more collectivist or working as one and having a we mentality. The American/Western European chose to live by the individualistic mindset or the belief that one can only look after themselves or their immediate family. Furthermore, in the article “Communication and Relationship Satisfaction in Chinese, Western, and Intercultural Chinese–Western Couples,” it used the cross-cultural research to indicate the way that people communicate in intimate relationships. The research conducted resulted in the Chinese culture showing their intimate partner love by keeping it inside and restrained from expressing emotions with communication. With European couples, love is expressed more verbally and frequently because otherwise low relationship satisfaction can

This is a great opportunity to look into a culture, find the significant differences, and explore more about what the culture has to offer to the world. Plus, when you enter into these cultures and really get embedded into them, you will find yourself getting a little less ethnocentric, or thinking your culture is superior. Collectivistic and individualistic societies play a role in this type of testing as they have two different views as to how they want to participate in everyday situations. For example, Asia, a collectivist society, might think about the needs of peers. The United States being an individualistic society, have the mindset just thinking about themselves more and their needs. Hypothesis testing determines why the two contrast societies like the demand for innovation from America rather than