Cultural Psychology

Han Chinese cultural psychology is the result of several thousand years of accumulation ,gradually formed. Although the past century of modern culture input, so that traditional culture has been a great impact, but its influence is still deeply entrenched. This process of verbal communication in people formed a unique Chinese features.

First,base on agricultural natural economy  feudal society dominated China for thousands of years, this feudal patriarchal society, has created two national psychological characteristics: First, the high importance of kinship, the second is the emphasis on class differences . Therefore, verbal communication is a prominent feature on the pay attention to the use of kinship call, the strict generational difference between young and old.

In the west you can see the younger generation call elders by their first names, and this communication in Chinese  is not allowed on the relatives of the elders, must use the appellation title of talk, it is polite, educated. But also as an honorific kinship terms, a large number for those who talk non-relatives, such as saying that his uncle, grandmother, aunt  is considered to be respect for each other, indicating a close relationship.

Attention to the concept of seniority was diverted to the patriarchal social relationships, to become a hierarchy. Thousands of years of feudal society has been promoting seniority, hierarchy and orderly. So people talk to have official duties commensurate with the object has always been in the habit, which is considered in the ancient respect call. In communication in order to raise the status of each other, often suppress their own, so have a number of relatively modest and the respect call that if your name - My name, your home - my house, virtuous brother - fool brother, masterpiece - books , Bright ideas - my humble, humble opinion.

Second, the emphasis on interpersonal harmony, emphasizing the social nature of man, emphasizing the social, groups of individuals bound, not prominent individuals and stressed groups. This is also linked to patriarchal relations of feudal society,it sharp contrast to west which is self-centered , emphasizing the independent personality, personality, and respected the achievements and honors individuals. Because of this, the Chinese people in order to emphasize the close relationships, kinship call used to refer to non-relatives speaker; after meeting with the Chinese often greet each other as the contents of private life, such as the meeting asked, "Have you eaten?" I would not really worried that you would starve, just to show interest, show affection.

As for how much salary to ask you, how old, with or without object, or a class of several children's issues, the Chinese also seem close relationships, feel for the performance of the East the way the so-called humane, and in the west appears to interfere with other people seems to have a "privacy" is suspect.

Han nationality toward sex and gender issues on the conservative tradition resulted in gender differences in the language of verbal communication. Generally speaking,male expressions relatively straightforward, casual, women more implicates, grave. Sex-related words with a curse, the occurrence rate in men far more than women. Although the traditional idea that because men do not use the word civilization, but it seems to be general understanding that, while women are utterly indecent to use, it seems only natural to be criticized by public opinion.

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