difference between china and u.s.

The first difference communication pattern is between females' reciprocal touching. In China, you can see many female friends walkinf down the street hand in hand, expecially female students. This is a natural phenomenon to show they are close friends. For example, I like to go shopping with my friend hand in hand, because it is just like we can protect each other and promote our friendship. By contrast, I neveer see this phenomnon in U.S. because American are so individual or indopendent. My American friends told me" if you walk hand in hand with another girl, the passerby would think you two are gay" so , I never wake hand in hand with another girl to go anywhere in the U.S.
The next difference communication pattem is greeting. In U.S."How are you?" or "Howare you doing?" is a convertional greeting. People often smile at each other and say "Hi" when passing on the sidewalk, even though they are strangers. However, in China they dont have any customers greeting between friends or family members. They just only say " What did you do yesterday?" or " Where are you going?" and never give smile to the strangers.
On the other hand, there are also many slmilarities communication pattems between China and U.S. For example. keeping space is a common way to face their new friends bosses or senivrs. As I know , in Chinese culture, keeping space is something beyong self-protetion. expecially to the strangers, they will keep 18 inches to four distance, and Americans do the same way because this is a basic politeness to show they respect each other. Another similarity communication pattern is eye contact. In China, there is an old say,"you can tell lies, but your eyes cannot tell lies." The eyes are the most honest object becamse they couldn't cheat people especially parents. For instance, in American, I saw a boy playing ball in the yard, but he broke the flowerpot carelessly. While his mother came out and saw this broken flowerpot, she asked the boy who did that, but the boy averted his eyes and responded." not me " Mother certainly knew he was lying, becamse his eyes feared contact with mother eyes. Such like thing often happend in chinese kids.
In conclusion, by learning anout Intercultural commnication, we can know how to deal with the different conntries' people, and avoid conflict, misunderstandings. Montaigne said." There never were in the word, two opinion like, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." Exactly the same to the Intercultural communication.