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    Cultural Information Sheet - China

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    £250(approx. $307)
    • Posted: 14 years ago
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    Description

    Experience Level: Expert
    The Project: To produce information for one of a series of leaflets I am writing for students coming to study in England. Each leaflet is designed to highlight where English culture varies from the student%u2019s own culture, including anything that might cause confusion, conflict or embarrassment.

    The Researcher: You will need to be a person who has lived with both a native English family in England and with a native family in China, and is deeply familiar with both cultures. As such, it is assumed that research will be minimal to zero, and that the task will draw on knowledge already acquired.

    The Task: Your task is to list and describe the differences between the two cultures. The final leaflet will be written by me, and will also form part of other information packages within the education provision. So, there is no need to do more than factual reporting.

    The types of area to be covered will include the following, but the list is by no means exhaustive. It is essential to focus on all aspects of culture. The final choice of what gets used will be mine.

    Initial meeting
    Conversation topics
    National quirks (the value of keeping %u201Cface%u201D, how long a handshake should be etc.)
    Space, (how close you normally stand to a person when talking)
    Touch (children, friends, strangers %u2026 when if ever, how)
    Attitudes to:
    politics
    religion
    tipping
    pets
    children
    members of the opposite sex
    Dress codes (home, work, etc)
    Daily timetable (when get up, have meals, go out, go to bed)
    Typical meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, other)
    Alcohol consumption (in the home, out, ref driving etc)
    Hygiene
    Body behaviour (all forms, especially hand and arm signals)
    Illness
    Homosexuality
    Queuing
    Bathrooms (use of bath/toilet, toilet paper, bidet, showers etc)
    Taboos (what is normal back home, but would cause problems in England)
    Things that happen only back home, not in England or even anywhere else (pantomime, for example,
    is quintessentially English %u2026 outside England, most confuse the word with mime)
    Areas of possible confusion
    Areas of likely misunderstanding (of gesture, phrase, noise)
    Areas of possible conflict
    What might cause embarrassment (to the student, the host family, an adult, a child)
    Any other significant cultural differences a student would notice coming to live and study in England amongst English people

    It is important to observe that all copyright remains with me.
    Clive B.
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    5217
    £250(approx. $307)
    Clive B.
    Clive B.
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    Projects Completed
    23
    Freelancers worked with
    22
    Projects awarded
    55%
    Last project
    12 Apr 2010
    United Kingdom

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