To be honest, this cross-culture communication class gave me some ideas about culture in a deeper way that I have never heard for the first time and I’ll try not to be as superficial as I was, so that you will not be disappointed.
Talking about the film, Gua Sha Treatment, it gave us a good example of the affect brought by the cultural differences between United States and China. This essay will focus on the topic, culture.
Culture is almost everything. It exists in every corner of the world. It is such a concept that makes me feel so difficult to give you a clear description according to my little limited knowledge. To me, everything has its culture, including the animals and even plants. As we all know that the ants, as insects or animals, are one of those social animals. Their society is a typically collective one, they build their cites together, gather food together, defeat enemies together, raise ant babies and take care of the queen together, though they do have the division of labour. And because there is division, their “city” has some separated sections, such as the “farm”, on which they grow there fungus and feed their “cows” which are a kind of insects that producing sweet liquid, and the army, the work place and the sleeping place, and of course the “palace”. What interests me more is that they can communicate, by touching each other’s cirrus. Through this way, they can give very accurate information to other ants. And I do think that’s the culture of the ants. And of course, there must be the culture of the lion, the culture of the fish…
We human beings, anyway, have a more sensitive and richer culture. At the very first, I mean at the beginning of the humanity, the man-culture had no difference from the social animal culture. But later, as the human beings were civilized, the culture developed, step by step, the human culture develops into the idea that we usually think what culture is now. I’d like to say, the human culture is born of the...