1、Exchange of gifts by westerners and ChineseIn china, the interpersonal especially pay attention to etiquette. Chinese people pay great importance to gift and they regard it as the interpersonal medium and bridge. The reason of giving gifts is various, in addtion to an important holiday visiting, usu
2、ally including weedings and funerals, career advancement and someones birthday. Whats more, they think expensive gift can express their good heart better. For example, when we go abroad to buy gifts, the foreign store owner generally will tear off the price tag, however, the chinese are always remai
3、ning the price tag to show how expensive the gift is.Moreover, chinese will take great effort to choose gifts. For instance, during Mid Autumn Festival, people will buy well-packaged, high quality moon cakes for gifts and keep the ordinary ones for their own consumption. However, in some way, chines
4、e gifts reveal vulgar and utilitarian. For example, someone sends an expensive to you, which may because he want to show he is rich. And corruption may grow in the giving of present, many corrupt officials fell because these gifts.Westerners emphasize pragmatic communication. When they consider givi
5、ng gifts, they hope concise and generally do not easily send present to the person with which they are not familiar. In the form of gift, westerners are also simpler than east. They not only do not send much expensive gifts but also against the cheap present. However, they focuse on the gift packagi
6、ng, especially emphasize the cultural style and artistic taste. They tend to focus on the commemorative value of gifts. That is to say, chinese send gift while westerners send souvenir.For examle, if you invited to the western home, you can give the hostess a bunch of flowers and send the host a bot
7、tle of wine. Because westerners pay more attention to the symbolic significance of their gift. They do not mind whether the gift is expensive or cheap, as long as it has a great significance.On the other hand, when westerners give gifts, they always say without minicing words but say that I carefull
8、y select the gift for you and hope you like.They generally do not refuse a gift. Westerners are always accepting present, saying thanks to the giver and opening the gift immediately. On the contrary, chinese people are humble in giving gift. They say that my giving is not precious, i hope you do not
9、 mind. Whats more, they never open the gift at once.Although there are many differences between chinese and western in giving gifts, we do not want to express one kind of cultural is better than another, but to say, these ways of thinking and behavior are formed because the geographical environment and historical conditions. The only thing we need to do is understanding.
