cultural difference compare — UK VS China

cultural difference — UK VS China

Snack:

UK — Chips/ ice cream/ sugar

China– gravy meat, chicken feet, pig feet, duck neck, dried bamboo shoots（笋干）, torfu(豆腐干)，Chips，melon seeds…

staple food:

UK — potato

China — Rice

Eat food time:

UK — 8.00am/ 13.00pm / 19.00pm

China– 6.00-11.oo am/ 11.00-13.00/ 17.00-19.00pm / 22.00- 2.00am

Greeting:

UK — are you ok? / are you all right?

China–are you eating? / where are you going?

Fire

UK — fire alarm

China–fire extinguisher(灭火器)

Kitchen:

UK — no fire, 4   /  no ventilator

China– gas fire, 2  /  ventilator

Animal on the street:

UK – pigeon / squirrel / dog

China– city: full of people    —countryside: pig/ chicken/ duck/ goose/ dog

old people’s live :

UK — at home?

China — Play Majiang & cards / do Tai Ji / dancing in the park  after dinner  —take care of grandchildren— help son/daughter to blind date

the disabled:

UK — out

China — at home

buy food:

UK– wheelbarrow

China — hand

bus/ tube phenomenon :

UK — newspaper / books —-left hand

China — chat / TV news & entertainment  – crowded/ overweight — right hand

sidewalk:

UK — no /cycleway/

China –Driveway/ Non-Driveway

Enterprise working time:

UK — Mon. to Fri. 9.00-5.00  /  weekend: Saturday & Sunday

China — Mon. to Sat.  (8.00-9.00)—-(5.00-? midnight ) more than 8 hours  per day/ work overtime without money/  Weekend : Sunday

Sat./Sun. entertainment:

UK – Exhibition/Museum / Drama/shopping / pub / club

China — KTV/shopping/games(Killers of Three Kingdoms/The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow/ mafia)/ pub /Club

Drink:

UK- coffee bar/ tea+milk

China –tea room / tea

 Street：

UK -Busking

China – old/ disabled Beggar

Museum:

UK – workshop/ gift shop / donate

China – charge

Children in the weekend :

UK – go to museum

China- go to cramming school

Lift:

UK – keep right

China – full of people

Demonstration:

UK- police protect ?

China – impossible exist

CCTV:

UK- camera

China – China news at 19:00 in every TV program.

Bank holiday:

UK-  many

China – no

Work effective:

UK – ineffective

China -effective

Umbrella:

UK – black big / shower of rain

China – colourful small/ full of colour umbrella

Toilet:

UK- clean

China – smelly /  countryside: latrine(茅坑)

female:

UK- see Chinese younger than the real age. /  fat & skinny coexist

China – see Britons mature  /  girls want to be thinner and thinner