Chinese Intercultural Communication Research Paper

2.2 Understanding U.S. American-Chinese Intercultural Comminication

2.2.1 The Background of U.S. American-Chinese Intercultural Communication After years of the progress of globalization, especially in the world marketplace, there have been an increasing number of cooperation and contact between different countries, for example, the establishment of international organizations and multinational enterprises, and consequently, cultural boundaries and the mobility of world population have become vaguer and more flexible (Gumperz xiii). Under such circumstances, in contemporary society, people have been encountering more opportunities to have direct contact with people who come from other ethnic groups and share disparate cultural values (Gumperz

Even meeting people from other countries can be a relatively shallow experience if we don’t need to change much about ourselves in order to get along (qtd. in 1)

What it actually illustrates is that the intercultural contact is still superficial, and is different from adaptation and communication (Shaules 1). Therefore, it is beneficial for us to be aware of the existing cultural difference and significance of intercultural communication, if we attempt to figure out the cultural relations between the United States and China. As is known to all, China and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1979 and since then, these two countries have been making communication, exchange, and cooperation in many fields, such as education, economy, tourism, culture, and so forth. Giving more examples here, when I work as a teacher doe a language training institute in China, every year a great many of young Chinese students pay for courses and improve their English language skills in order to study in the United States for better education opportunity. They usually maintain the idea that compared with Chinese educational system which emphasizes results of examinations generating high pressure on