Essay About Cultural Differences

Have you ever talked with people who lived in different culture? Last summer I went to Boston to learn and try to communicate with people who grew up in different country. Even that I can speak English and could communicate with them, it was difficult to understand the jokes or pick up on someone’s feeling. These problems will happen because of cultural differences. But surprisingly, those problems were been solved after living in Boston for 3 weeks. It was easier than learning English, and I thought cultural differences is bigger problem than language difficulty. Now I am going to talk about why the problems from cultural differences are big deal for us and their solutions referring with “Stumbling blocks in Intercultural Communication” written by

The man probably came from Anglosphere, and Chinese people only knows the Chinese culture. They had a dish of eels, and the man looks at the dish like that he is seeing something disgusting, gross. Finally he ate all of the eels, because that was the manner of the English culture, but on the other hand, empty dish means need more in the chinese culture. So the Chinese man asked the weightier to cook bigger eels and serve that to the man. If you are full, we need to put the chopstick or spoon sideways, which means you are enough to eat food. They behave to be kind to other people, but that lead to have opposite effect to each other. This is also by assumption of similarities. Those two people think things basically from their cultures, and they did not concerned about other cultures. To solve this situation, firstly the man should know about Chinese culture, or try to gesture and speak to tell the truth that you are full because, this situation is occuring by lacking of knowledge about chinese culture, and the gesture is the way that can easily communicte with other people who speaks different