【正文】 ther people and we are most likely to agree with and feel fortable with people who are socially economically, and culturally similar to ourselves. This is one reason why Chinese abroad tend to socialize with each other, just as Americans and British do when they are abroad. Birds of a feather flock together, but for people, the familiar plumage is culture. . Culture is Dynamic and Heterogeneous Martin and Nakayama (20xx: 31) said that culture is dynamic, or changing, and can often be a source of conflict among different groups. We must recognize that culture is not rigid and homogeneous but are dynamic and heterogeneous. Seeing culture as dynamic and heterogeneous opens up new ways of thinking about intercultural munication. After all, the people from a particular culture are not identical and any culture has many intercultural struggles. For instance, when we speak of Chinese culture or French culture, we ignore the diversity that resides in that culture. That ―Chinese culture‖ may refer to the main land Chinese or to the Chinese from Hong Kong, who speak Cantonese. The label ―Chinese‖ thus obscures incredible diversity. Yet, cultures are not heterogeneous in the same way everywhere. Martin and Nakayama (20xx:32) gave us two examples as follows: ―there are poor people in the 5 most nations. The poor in the United States are open viewed with disdain, as people to be avoided。 rather, it is learned. ―All of us are born with basic needs — needs that create and shape behavior — but how we go about meeting those needs and developing behaviors to cope with them is learned.‖ (Porter, Samovar amp。 1 1. Introduction Intercultural munication is a form of global munication. It is used to describe the wide range of municative problems that naturally appear within an anization made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds. It seeks to understand how people from different countries and cultures act, municate and perceive the world around them. For the world today is characterized by an ever growing number of contacts resulting in munication between people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, various cultural conflicts in munication appear nearly everywhere in the munication between people from different cultural background. It is urgent for researchers to be aware of those conflicts and try different municative methods to solve them in order to have a better munication in different social affairs. The writer does several research about different bibliography and make a conclusion from those documents in intercultural munication with the aim of finding effective methods to solve ChineseWestern cultural conflicts in intercultural munication. The paper describes five types of cultural conflicts in intercultural munication and offers three strategies of dealing with these cultural conflicts. It first focuses on culture because it has a significant influence on intercultural munication. The definition and characteristics are both mentioned. Then we es to five different types of cultural conflicts. They are affective conflict, cognitive conflict, value conflict, goal conflict and conflict of interest. Next we have the analysis of causes of those cultural conflicts. At last, the essay offers two strategies and two skills for dealing with cultural conflicts. They are clearness with conflicts, familiarity with other cultures, planning and asking questions 2 2. Culture Intercultural munication may be said to occur when people of different cultural backgrounds interact, but this definition seems simplistic. To properly define intercultural munication, it is necessary to understand the world ―culture‖, for culture is often considered the core concept in intercultural munication. Definition Wu and Yan (20xx) said that, culture belongs to the mental wealth and the material wealth which are created by human. However, what is the correct definition of culture? Definitions of culture are numerous. E. B. Tylor, for example, a nieenthcentury anthropologist who provided one of the earliest formal definitions of the term, describes culture as ―that plex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society‖ (Lustig amp。 Stefani, 20xx: 38) ―On the basis of cultural learning, people create, remember, and deal with ideas.‖(Kottak, 20xx: 86) Martin and Nakayama (20xx:27) give us examples as follows: most Americans eat holding a fork in one hand, but when they use a knife, they shift the fork to their other hand. Europeans think this is clumsy。 in many European countries, by contrast, the poor are seen as a part of society, to be helped by government programs. Likewise, gender issues are not framed the same way in all countries. For example, in the United States, gender equality is defined in terms of equal pay and career opportunities. In some Middle Eastern countries, women may be seen to have equality because they have tremendous power within the home and family but less influence in public arenas.‖ . Culture Involves Perception and Values Martin and Nakayama (20xx:28) said that cultural groups share perception, or ways of looking at the world. Culture is something described as a sort of lens through which we view the world. All the information we receive in a given day passes through this perceptual lens. We select, evaluate and anize information (stimuli) from the external environment through perception. Thus, all of our prior learning — the information we have already stored in our brains — affects how we interpret new information. Some of this learning and perception is related to the values of cultural groups we belong to. Values hav