Sunday, November 4, 2007

Chinese Cultures (# Journal 23 )

Chinese cultures have nearly 50000000 histories. As time goes on, most of cultures, we forgot already. There is a real story that my friend told me. My friend, Dian, studied in the USA 3 years ago and she has a lot of Native American friends. One day, she noticed that one of her friends was very weird. The friend looked like having some secrets that couldn’t tell her. So, Dian asked her friend bravely” what is wrong? Do you have something that wants to tell me?” Finally, her friend told her” actually, I just feel your necklace is very beautiful and I like it very much.” Dian said, “Thank you, but why you are afraid of telling me?” Her friend answered her, “Because last time when I told a Chinese friend that her jade is very beautiful, she gave the jade to me at once, so I thought that I shouldn’t give her my praise because it sounded that I am rude because I wanted her to give the jade to me.” After Dian heard the story, she started laughing. Dian explained to her friend that Chinese people are very hospitable and Chinese people will do their best to satisfy their guests because Chinese want their guests to feel that even though they are in the other people’s house, they feel they are in their own home. That is why the host gave the jade to her friend. This story didn’t cause any embarrassing situations or results but the story could totally explain the nature of Chinese people, that is, passion and hospitable.

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