【正文】 Chinese people’s enthusiasm may be misunderstood as red tape by western people。 they think people should care for each other. So, Chinese people are willing to know the other people’s things and the others also want to tell them. But western people attach great importance to the personal privacy. They want to have personal space and they are not willing to tell others their own things, they do not even want others to interfere their life. So, there are many conflicts on privacy between Chinese people and western people. For example, when Chinese people meet each other the first time, they would like to inquire about the others’ age, marriage, family, profession and even their ine. They think this is a polite way to municate with each other, but western people believe these questions encroach upon their privacy. B. The conflicts on the sense of time The sense of time of western people is closely related with money. The idea that Time is money has formed in their thought. So, they set a high value on their time. In the daily time, western people have a meticulous plan about their time and they have a good habit of ing to date on time. In western countries, if you want to call on someone, you must inform them or date with them before you e and you should tell them your ing purpose, the time and the place. After both of you discuss about it, you can make it out. But, Chinese people use their time at their pleasure. Usually, Chinese people will not do things as the western people, and western people usually feel unsuitable on this course. Most western people spend their time in working and studying, they seldom spend a lot time in eating or doing something else. But Chinese people spend much time on other things. For example, when western people e to KFC to have a meal, they eat their food as soon as possible, but, the Chinese people in Body 3 KFC show another situation. They eat their food slowly and chat with each other. They do not think this is a way to waste time. C. The conflicts on traditional cultures Chinese people pay special attention to modesty. When they municate with others, they often respect others but look down upon themselves. They think this is a virtue and this is a polite phenomenon with Chinese characteristics. When others praise Chinese people, they often show very modest. Western countries do not have this phenomenon, when they are praised, they are often very happy and say “thank you” to others to show they accept the praise. Because of the cultural difference, Chinese people often hold that western people are too confident and ignorant of the fact that modesty is one kind of politeness in Chinese cultures. But, when western people know Chinese people do not agree with others when others praise them or when western people know Chinese people deny their own achievement, western people will feel very surprised, they think Chinese people are not honest. D. The conflicts on table custom Chinese nationality has a excellent tradition of enthusiasm and hospitality. In the settings of social munication or on the banquet, the enthusiastic Chinese people often give cigarettes to others and drink with each other. When Chinese people hold a party, even there are a lot foods on the table, the host often say some conventional sentences such as “There is not much food” or “This is but a homely meal”. The host sometimes gets some foods for the guest and put them to the guest’s bowl and they try many ways to let the guest drink more and eat more. But in western countries, people attach importance to personal authority and personal privacy. So, they will not force others to do any thing. When they have a meal, they will not get some food for the guests, the guests eat what they want to eat, they will also not ask the guests to drink and drink till they get drunk. Ⅲ . THE REASONS LEADING TO THE CULTURAL CONFLICT There are varied of reasons which caused the culture conflicts between China and western countries. The basic reason is that China and western countries have different Body 4 culture, different history background. All of these will surely bring the difference of people’s mode of thinking, difference of behavior, thus conflicts can hardly be avoided. A. The difference in the mode of thinking Culture has an effect on people’s view and cognition. Different countries have different cultures. So, the difference in people’s thinking way must exist. You can easily find such difference between Chinese culture and western culture. When western people think, they would like to attach importance to logic and analysis, While Chinese people value intuition which is the characteristic of Chinese traditional mode of thinking. Due to the great influence of this traditional culture, Chinese people pay great attention to intuition, experience and the feeling in the course of munication, and they often use this experience and feeling to municate with people. Compared with the thinking way of the western people, the mode of thinking of Chinese people has obvious vagueness, after a long time, it forms their thinking way. It can be explained as the classifying feeling course of distinguishing and simplifying o outside objects. Looking from the essence, Chinese people’s thinking way often neglects the difference of individual objects and exaggerates the recognitive attitude of other social masses. It often bear a person’s own emotion, acpanied with fixed faith. In all of Chinese people’s thinking ways, some are right but some are wrong. They will affect the intercultural munication directly and cause the failed munication. B. The difference in behavior The specific meaning of behavi