Differences between Chinese thought and western thought

There is a dramatically huge gap between Chinese people’s way to think and western people’s. According to someone’s summery in a website which is really acceptable and accurate. It classifies the differences into 5 categories.

The first is the relationship between justice and interests. On the one hand, Chinese people widely believe righteousness and justice carry more weight. Guan Yu is a classical individual of righteousness which is thought as a symbol of right by Chinese people. Therefore, under his influence, Chinese people prefer rightness rather than interest. On the other hand, western people are more selfish and believe the profits and benefits are more important. From another perspective to this phenomenon, western people are realism and Chinese are idealism.

Second is the integrity and individual issue of observation. In our class, in order to teach us to notice that problem, my teacher asked us to obverse an odd picture full of abundant strange shapes of images, then we have to describe what we saw. Many of my Chinese classmates answer is preferably a whole thing, but my American teacher’s answer is more particle. 

Third is the pursuit of the same thinking and divergent thinking problems. Chinese people extremely to follow others’ decision but ignore there real thought. Actually, some of them lack the ability to think by themselves. By contrary to the followers, western people preoperatively own their personal idea. The more important thing is that most of western people will bravely and directivity speak out their opinions.

Fourth, Chinese people and western people have great variety on expression of love. Chinese girls like more implicit way of expressing emotions. However, western women love direct expression of love. Maybe a couple of lovers will kiss each other on the first day they meet which must shock most Chinese.

The last difference is Chinese people’s preference of suggestion which can be accurately found in most Chinese poems. There is little direct description but full of hints. So, one of the main tasks of Chinese people’s Chinese class is to understand the poems. Additionally, a reference book is necessary.

In conclusion, according to all the five analysis above, we can safely say that Chinese thought does differ from western thought dramatically.