【正文】 tionship (董茜 ,2020). Louis Harris, a wellknown US expert in sociology conducted a survey, and the statistic showed that, 83% of American men and women believe that love is the primary element to get 桂林電子科技大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）報告用紙 第 3 頁 共 12 頁 married, and 90% of the American people also believe that love is the first condition to maintain a happy marriage (蔡琪 ,2020). So from the survey, we can see that seeking true love is the most important purpose of geting married for most Americans. Therefore, we can learn that, to get married in America is the right of individual, and Chinese marriage is more like to fulfill their obligations. The Differences of Selecting a Spouse According to China Youth Daily in 2020, several teachers and students of Nankai University recently pleted an interesting survey. They selected some spouseseeking advertisments in Tanjin and Boston?s local mainstream newspapers to study the differences of selecting a spouse in these two cities. The survey showed that the words and sentences often appeared in men?s advertisments in Tianjin newspaper were “have a stable job”, “no bad habbits” and “responsible”。 四． 第三 章，總結(jié)全文。與具有五千多年悠久歷史的中華民 族相比 ,美利堅民族僅僅走完二百多年的歷史征程 ,中美文化自然會有相去千里的個性。 編號： 畢業(yè)設(shè)計 (論文 ) 題 目： 中美婚姻觀的跨文化對比研究 A CrossCultural Comparison of Concepts about Marriage between Chinese Culture and American Culture 院 （系） ： 外國語學(xué)院 專 業(yè) ： 英 語 學(xué)生 姓名 ： 學(xué) 號 ： 0800610126 指導(dǎo)教師單位 ： 大學(xué)外語部 姓 名： 職 稱： 講 師 題目類型： √ 理論研究 實驗研究 工程設(shè)計 工程技術(shù)研 究 軟件開發(fā) 2020 年 5 月 25 日 桂林電子科技大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）報告用紙 I 誠 信 宣 言 我， ，鄭重宣布：除了參考文獻所標明引用的資料和內(nèi)容之外，本論文中不包含有任何已經(jīng)被其他高等教育機構(gòu)所接受的學(xué)位或?qū)W歷論文資料，也不包含有其他任何人已經(jīng)正式出版的資料內(nèi)容。美國社會張揚“個性” ,重視個人的權(quán)益和自由 。 關(guān)鍵詞 ： 婚姻； 跨文化； 中美文化；夫妻關(guān)系；價值觀 桂林電子科技大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）報告用紙 III Abstract In the process of crosscultural munication, because people from different culture have different ways of thinking, religious beliefs, values and social systems, the munication process is full of contradictions and obstacles. Humans are emotional animals。 and women?s advertisments always emphasized that they were kind, virtuous and from a good family。 the learned, primarily symbolic features of a particular way of life。 they think they have the good fortune to have such a life. But for the fulltime husbands, people always look down on them, they think such a man is good for nothing, and so is a useless man. The American HusbandWife Relationship Westerners believe that, husband and wife should be equal partners (瑪麗安娜卡尼戴特斯曼，喬安克蘭德爾，愛德華 N 卡尼 ,1999). Since the Industrial Revolution, the continuous growth in the demand for labor in industrial society forced a large number of women entered the labor market. Women plunged into more and more fields outside their families to participate in the work. Because women gained the oppotunity to make a financial contribution to the families, they naturally asked for the corresponding enhencement of their status. Therefore, the Women?s 桂林電子科技大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）報告用紙 第 6 頁 共 12 頁 Liberation Movement was all over the western society. Those feminists proposed a guiding principle, which was “gender equality, women?s liberation.” They requested that women should obtain equal status with men in society and family, free women from the traditional habits, attitudes and values, and achieve the true equality. Similar to that in the modern Chinese families, the husbandwife relationship in the American families has been more and more equal. The change of the women?s economic status in society was bound to bring about the reform of the husbanwife relationship within the family. But pared with Chinese families, American couples have more personal space and they p ut great emphasis on their personal privacy. And referring to finanial, in China, when two people get married, their finance will be put together and managed by husband or wife. Few people notarize [39。 value 桂林電子科技大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）報告用紙 IV Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 1. Differences in the Concepts of Marriage between Chinese Culture and American Culture..................................................................................................... 1 The Differences in the Purpose of getting married ................................................................... 1 The Purpose of getting married in China ............................................................................... 2 The Purpose of getting married in America ........................................................................... 2 The Differences of Selecting a Spouse ........................................................................................ 3 How Chinese People Select a Spouse ....................................................................................... 3 How American People Select a Spouse .................................................................................... 4 The Differences in the Relationship between Husband and Wife in Marriage ...................... 4 The Chinese HusbandWife Relationship. .............................................................................. 5 The American HusbandWife Relationship ............................................................................ 5 2. The Factors contribute to these Differences in the Concepts of Marriage between Chinese Culture and American